fan films

  • The Decade Fandom Went Corporate

    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.


  • This Bleak Star Wars Fan Film Takes Hamlet To Tatooine

    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?