By Rob Bloom April 08, 2005 Mwah! Peter Pan and Aladdin were huddled together in a corner of the locker room, their lips locked in a moment of pixie dust passion. Next to them, the Fairy Godmother cursed like a sailor and Snow White took a long drag on a Marlboro. And so began my first day of work at…
Read More »Inside every good Disney movie is a dark comedy trying to get out. By Chris Stewart April 09, 2005 These days its tough to watch the comings and goings of the Walt Disney Corporation – the days of Uncle Walt talking from the screen to you before each new cartoon or movie is long past. Now all you see is…
Read More »Enterprise attempts to bow out gracefully, but then the two terrible Bs crap all over it. By Sarah Kuhn May 16, 2005 Star Trek is dead. Some would say it’s been dead for a long, long time. Some would say those two terrible Bs killed it way back when and then tried to cover up the evidence with all the panache of…
Read More »I don’t even like Peter Pan. By Matt Springer April 13, 2005 I am the only adult male in the Disney Character Outlet store. That’s not fully true. I see one or two other guys. But seeing as they’re with either eager wives and/or children, it may be safer to say I’m the only adult male willingly in the Disney…
Read More »Nuclear families? So over By Sarah Wolf April 22, 2005 Somewhere in the bowls of the Disney archive, there has to be a memo from Walt to the nine old men outlining the standard Disney character. After listing standard traits (plucky, can carry a tune, talks with woodland creatures), I imagine it has a final caveat: “Also, must be orphaned;…
Read More »Shiney! By David B. Grelck May 06, 2005 I’ve been threatened. With drawn and quartering and all sorts of miscellaneous other horrors that Reavers would enjoy quite a bit. Threatened bodily harm if I so much as come close to something someone would term a spoiler about Serenity, Joss Whedon’s film directorial debut, which also happens to be a film…
Read More »A cup…a gun… By Matt Springer May 13, 2005 How feel me about the end of Star Wars as we know it? Fine, I guess. Good. Wistful. Relieved. All those things. Truth is, I don’t know what to feel, or how to feel it. There’s a vague sense of disconnection and unreality to embracing the idea that in a week,…
Read More »Sith lords are our speciality. By Matt Springer May 19, 2005 I have had seven hours of sleep over the last two days. I flew from LA to Chicago for a visit of about 24 hours, just to see Revenge of the Sith with my dad, my college pals, and the good nerds of Chicago Force. I am staring down…
Read More »This is where the fun begins. By Diana Estigarribia May 21, 2005 Fidem servavi. If it ‘s been awhile since your last Latin class, that means “I have kept the faith.” My faith in George Lucas, that is. I quite enjoy the oft-maligned The Phantom Menace and even Attack of the Clones. In the face of the naysayers, the haters,…
Read More »May the Force go with you! By Matt Springer June 07, 2005 For a multitude of reasons, I think it’s safe to say that George Lucas’ relationship with his fans can be a contentious one. Not all of his fans, naturally. In fact, I bet most of them behave as fans should, and are appropriately adoring when thinking upon and…
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