Confectionary Review: The Jar-Jar Binks Lolly
If there’s one thing you can’t accuse George Lucas of, it’s poor marketing. The merchandising blitz promoting The Phantom Menace was huge – even larger if you happened to be an ant at the time. Even...
View ArticleHistorical Afterthoughts
“Uh, let there be light, I guess.” “Wait, wait, cut.” “What is it, George?” “I was just thinking…maybe we should set Star Wars in space?” “Yeah, okay I guess we’d better leave Poland. No, actually,...
View ArticleStar Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the: Sith: Review
Guest review by Andrew Sumner. WARNING: contains more spoilers than a garage of riced-out pimp-rockets. I have a friend named Dan who works at the Rialto Cineplex in downtown White Rock. Frequently,...
View ArticleMedia Hoax: John Rhys-Davies in Star Wars Episode III
Here it is: The Rubber Chicken’s single greatest accomplishment. A small prank that should have died within minutes, but instead became something far more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You...
View ArticleMeesa Moi Moi Seeking Señoritas.
Firstly, it’s high time I acknowledged our Star Wars fan readership: Hello. If any Rubber Chicken readers… Actually, if I may digress for a moment (ignoring that this update is essentially one...
View ArticleStar Wars Episode VI: Darth Maul’s Revenge – The Audio Drama
Remember the episode of the original (western) Power Rangers series where Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger, lost his powers? Remember how devastated we all were? (And those of you who were too...
View ArticleCinema’s Greatest Ripoffs: Hollywood Plagiarism Exposed
Exhibit A: Seven Samurai and Pokemon The Movie 2000: The Power of One When I first saw Akira Kurosawa’s quintessential samurai film, I was expecting a masterpiece of cinema; a heart-wrenching epic;...
View ArticleCelebrity Burning Question: Why Does The Sun Shine?
The sun. Giver of life. Melter of ice creams. An all-around top-notch ball of incandescent gas. Yet behind that orb of brightness dwells a past of darkness. Of all the alleged scientific “facts”, none...
View ArticlePoetry Night: Jar Jar Binks
Alastair: Once more, TRC alumn and newly baptised podcast initiate Chad McCanna was kind enough to travel back in time to a 2004 poetry night to help pad out this slow, rhyme-deprived month. Ta, love.
View ArticleThe Rubber Chicken Podcast: Podisode: We’re Really Very Sorry
In this bonus episode: another collection of outtakes tasteless even by our standards. In the interests of public safety and social conscience, the audio recording described as “The Rubber Chicken...
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