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Musings on ChatGPT, change, and the creeping memory hole

March 24, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 6

For years, my wife and I have collected thousands of DVD’s, LP’s, CD’s, and of course books, and therefore we have had little choice but to decorate with them too. We hate clutter, but we’re […]

The Dispatch

With “The Mandalorian,” Star Wars returns to its roots

January 2, 2020 Thomas P. Harmon 6

The first season of Disney’s The Mandalorian deliberately—and successfully—returns to the tighter storytelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It uses sparse dialogue and gorgeous visuals to set the scene, and keeps the […]

Film & Music

The Rise of Skywalker: Reduced expectations and damage control

December 22, 2019 Thomas P. Harmon 17

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is not a good movie. Its frenetic pace rushes us through a convoluted plot, any particular moment of which has its own problems. The plausibility of the plot and […]

Film & Music

Star Wars: The Rise of Nostalgia

December 17, 2019 Sean Fitzpatrick 9

For those who grew up a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the final episode in the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, promises an emotional conclusion to what was a […]

The Dispatch

Solo, the lovable scoundrel

June 6, 2018 Nick Olszyk 2

The latest Star Wars installment has no aspirations of being anything more that rousingly good time, which serves greatly in its favor. […]

Books

“Knowledge of a greater existence”: A review of “From Star Wars To Superman”

April 6, 2018 Jerry Salyer 3

James Papandrea is quite right in giving pop science fiction closer attention than others might think it warrants, for there are deeper ideas at stake […]

Features

From heroism to cynicism: The deconstruction of Luke Skywalker

January 7, 2018 Thomas P. Harmon 22

The Last Jedi demythologizes Skywalker in order to deconstruct the cultural achievements of the original Star Wars trilogy and clear the way for a new […]

The Dispatch

How the “Star Wars” franchise lost its way

December 26, 2017 Bishop Robert Barron 42

What began forty years ago as a thrilling, cinematic exploration of the philosophia perennis has devolved into a vehicle for the latest trendy ideology—and that […]

The Dispatch

The Last Star Wars Film

December 22, 2017 Nick Olszyk 11

It wasn’t that writer-director Rian Johnson failed in making a great Star Wars film; he didn’t even try. […]

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