fan films
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The Decade Fandom Went Corporate
In the last twenty years, fandom and mass culture have basically merged. Fans and fandom spent the 2000s fighting for legitimacy and proving their combined worth. And corporations? Well, they spent the 2010s learning how to co-opt fandom to silence critics, manipulate press, and make even more money.
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A Hocus Pocus Fan Musical Recreates The Classic Halloween Film’s ‘Lost Scenes’
Hocus Pocus may be the perfect Halloween movie, but you always feel like you can have more — in another world, we could have. A few scenes spotted in this trailer have been lost to time, but now a new musical number has brought the Sanderson Sisters back. And there’s hell to pay… at the…
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Darth Vader And Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Death Star Duel Gets A Dramatic Fan Re-Imagining
By the time Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were reunited aboard the Death Star, both men had changed. Physically, mentally, time and the occasional dunk in a Mustafarian lava lake had rendered the two mystical warriors old, battered men, and their battle reflected it. This fan film re-interpretation imagines how it could have been, in…
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This Bleak Star Wars Fan Film Takes Hamlet To Tatooine
Video: The quintessential concern of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is moral paralysis. Is what I’m doing meaningful? Does my life have any meaning? In one of the most famous soliloquies of all time, Hamlet considers this question with poetic precision — to be, or not to be?