Jay Gabler, Author at The Tangential

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Even after listening to Jason Fry’s Last Jedi novelization, I was a little fuzzy on the post-Empire politics of the Star Wars universe. Wh..

Everyone loves the part in Jurassic Park where the Tyrannosaurus roars while the WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH banner flaps down to the g..

An honest man who was an honest boy, I have only one memory of sneaking into a movie — and even then, my mom had paid for me to see a movi..

If Solo: A Star Wars Story is disappointing at the box office, it can’t be blamed on the crew at Penguin Random House Audio, who’ve been c..

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On the face of it, the 1979 science fiction classic Alien doesn’t seem like a strong prospect for sequels — at least, not interesting ones..

Since clearing the Expanded Universe decks in 2014 and declaring that only movies were canon, the Disney-era Lucasfilm has been busily re-..

Excellences & Perfections is a book you can hold in your hands. It chronicles an 2014 performance by Amalia Ulman, who’s been called “the ..

The Making of Kubrick’s 2001 is a 1970 book edited by Jerome Agel. A rare artifact in and of itself, the book finds the Marshall McLuhan c..

It’s easy to understand what attracted Steven Spielberg to Ready Player One: it’s a story about a media mogul who captivates billions with..