Reviews written by Jeremy Gallen
The first Indiana Jones film sequel, actually occurring chronologically before the first, opens with American songstress Willie Scott performing a Chinese rendition of the titular theme from the old Broadway show Anything Goes in 1935 Shanghai, where the eponymous college professor, archaeologist, and adventurer negotiates with Chinese mobsters in...
I maybe became aware of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek franchise when I was around six years old but really didn't indulge into it when I was well into my adulthood, and I'll admit that even then I was more of a Star Wars junkie, although I'll acknowledge that many...
I've mostly been into the Star Wars franchise as a teenager but only really watched the films in the Original Trilogy, not bothering with the original Expanded Universe material until later on--and they've pretty much been invalidated due to Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm. I knew that the Original Trilogy...
I was largely apathetic and carefree in grade school about the world's happenings, American politics, and US history until I took my education more seriously, starting in the seventh grade. While I got the general gist of American history during eighth and ninth grades, I discovered well after graduating...
After the smash success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first entry in the Skywalker Saga after Disney purchased Lucasfilm, they decided to broaden the conditionally-beloved franchise's horizons with spinoff media, including the very first spinoff film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which tells about how the...
George Lucas originally wanted to make a Flash Gordon film but couldn't secure the rights and decided to do his own thing with Star Wars: A New Hope, which was a really troubled production, going through tons of rewrites and various on-set issues. Many of the actors didn't like...
When I was young and carefree, I didn't really have strong opinions on anything like most media, video games included (and I've been a gamer for as long as I remember), or any other media like books, movies, and television shows. In the early 1990s, I did have a...
Even when I was young, I had a fascination with animated films, although I didn't officially hear or recognize the name of Don Bluth, maybe until around the turn of the millennium. I had seen bits of All Dogs Go to Heaven and Rock-a-Doodle towards the end of the...
Star Wars' Expanded Universe (EU) has been a crucial part of its narrative since its inception, even before the release of the sequel The Empire Strikes Back three years later. This expansion was marked by influential books like Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye and a few...
Troublemaker Michael Moore's only non-documentary film to date, I first watched Canadian Bacon on Comedy Central during the channel's glory days and wasn't aware Moore actually had a part in it until a decade or so later. I don't really like his... politics, but I still thought the film...
