Rewatchability.com has gained exclusive screencaps of J.J. Abrams’ forthcoming Kickstarter campaign for his new Star Wars film, in the mode of the recently successful multimillion dollar Kickstarter campaigns by Zach Braff and Rob Thomas. While it hasn’t gone live on the website yet, you can see the screencaps by clicking the images below:
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On this week’s un-retro episode of Rewatchability, we tease Thursday’s episode (our final entry in our month of Canadian content), plus we talk about the fact that J.J. Abrams is directing the new Star Wars flick, as well as the news that Disney cancelling the 3-D re-releases of Episodes 2 and 3, thus saving Life Day. We also chat about Zero Dark Thirty, the Coen Brothers vs. the Farrelly Brothers, Woody Allen’s Sleeper, and Randy Quaid being denied Canadian citizenship, thus ruining Life Day.
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Episode 76- Return of Return of the Jedi
Check back on Thursday, we’ll have an episode devoted to the Canadian Heritage Minutes, which you can see most of here.
WARNING: the podcast contains strong language and immature subject matter, please be advised.
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1986′s Critters is kind of like Gremlins meets Star Wars meets E.T. meets a substantially smaller budget. The titular monsters are essentially Furby-esque toys with a thirst for mayhem. Directed by Stephen Herek of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure fame, the whole thing had a fun B-Movie vibe to it, entertaining ’80s audiences enough to warrant several sequels (the second of which is directed by Rewatchability favourite, Mick Garris). But now, almost 25 years later, does the movie hold up in any way? We’ll let you know if it’s worth Rewatching, and if it deserves “Both Thumbs Up!”
MUSIC: This week’s featured artist is Boys Who Say No
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It’s back and more extraneously priced than ever! Yes it’s Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, this time in glorious, well not glorious, but it’s in 3D… and this is just the first of six 3-D re-releases for the Star Wars franchise. Despite the reputation it’s earned, we honestly went into this screening with open minds. Did we enjoy Episode 1 the second time around? Why does Liam Neeson keep touching everybody? Was Red Tails George Lucas’ apology for Jar Jar Binks? Why do kids love trade disputes so darn much? We answer these questions and more!
Episode 26- Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace
There is some audio glitching at the end of the episode. Our hard drive needs a Midichlorian upgrade. Sorry about that.
WARNING: the podcast contains strong language and immature subject matter, please be advised.
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For the first of our holiday-themed episodes we discuss Star Wars… not the classic film, but the poorly conceived, badly-executed 1978 Christmas special. And by Christmas, I mean Life Day– the annual Wookie celebration of, well, Life I guess. It’s at least notable as being the only Star Wars story co-written by Bruce Vilanch… And for those of you who care so much about whether Han or Greedo shot first, it doesn’t matter, because Greedo’s alive! And he’s hanging out with Bea Arthur!
The Star Wars Holiday Special is clearly terrible, but is it still funny? It used to be the wacky black sheep of George Lucas’ franchise, but after three epically crappy prequels and new needlessly “special” editions of the originals, the Star Wars universe has sadly become a flock of black sheep . Is it better or worse than Episode 1? Is Jefferson Starship the Achilles heel of The Empire? Is Chewbacca a deadbeat dad? Why does animated Han look like Neil Gaiman? We attempt to answer these questions and more!
Episode 16- Star Wars Holiday Special
Next week,Thurs. Dec. 15, we’ll be back with another festive blast of Yuletide nostalgia, whether you like it or not.
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