by Devin Pike | 22 Oct 2019 | Stage, Screen and Sound
STAR WARS is not about the movies themselves. Hasn’t been, for a long while. We will go on and on about the other movies in the series. “Franchise.” Whatever. In my mind, the thing that makes the films so special is almost irrelevant to the actual...
by Devin Pike | 21 Feb 2019 | Stage, Screen and Sound
Finally got caught up on last week’s STAR TREK: DISCOVERY episode, while recovering from whatever errant rhinovirus I brought back from Gallifrey One. Over the last couple of years, I have been repeating a mantra: “All art is subjective.” I was saying it A LOT during...
by Devin Pike | 5 Jun 2018 | Stage, Screen and Sound
People like to point to the late Sixties through the late Eighties, the era Gen-X grew up, as the start of Geek Culture’s Golden Age. In a two-decade span, you saw the rise of DOCTOR WHO, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, STAR TREK, STAR WARS, BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA, and so many...
by Devin Pike | 11 Jan 2016 | Stage, Screen and Sound
The most ridiculous thing about the way I found out about David Bowie’s death was the first notice, where a notorious death hoax site published a note saying not that he had passed, but that it was a hoax that he had died. Instead, we learned within the hour that the...
by Devin Pike | 1 Dec 2015 | Stage, Screen and Sound
My last regular writing gig was for a site I co-founded called Red Carpet Crash, in 2009. In the three years I wrote for the site as its editor, I did hundreds of interviews, but the one I enjoyed the most was in the environment I liked the least: the roundtable...
by Devin Pike | 26 Oct 2015 | Stage, Screen and Sound
Amid the coverage articles for the short-run of GILMORE GIRLS, this comment jumped out from the din of “OMG I CAN’T WAIT” “What? Wait! Did *anyone* ask for this? I didn’t ask for this! Bring back FIREFLY — a show that more people will watch and love!” …okay. Let’s...
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