For a decade, the world went through a phase where the only new Star Wars content was the animated Clone Wars series. No sign of any new feature films, not least an Episode VII. But in 2012 when Disney acquired Lucasfilm, ensuring they bought the distribution rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, a new agenda […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
On the phenomenon of cult cinema
If you look into the definition of ‘cult’ in the Oxford English Dictionary you get a particularly clear-cut idea of what contributes to one of popular culture’s stranger fascinations: “a collective obsession with or intense admiration for a particular person, thing, or idea.” Yet, this definition doesn’t really seem to cut it for me and, […]