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The People vs. George Lucas: the verdict?

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Ever since the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans old and new have debated the merits of the new trilogy, and Lucas’ decision to drastically alter the original trilogy to make it more ‘modern’, not just in the effects department, but taking some rough edges off main characters.  The new documentary The People vs. George Lucas, from director Alexandre O. Phillipe, is a good distillation of that debate.  It offers up, in a compressed timeline, an overview of the history of George Lucas and the almost religious following…

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Attend SXSW virtually

Doug Groves , , 1 Comment

Every spring, the SXSW music festival invades Austin Texas.  In the early days, it was purely a musical affair, but since then has also grown to include both film and interactive festivals that run more or less concurrently.  Twitter, for example, launched at SXSE interactive in 2007. As part of it’s musical side, artists both new and established have made MP3s available free to download from the SXSE website. In more recent years those files have been compiled by the public into a huge repository of RIAA safe torrent files….

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