There is a lot going on in the Star Wars universe (unless, of course, you are on of those people still mourning the killing off of the Expanded Universe in which case it is no longer quite big enough). That is quite possibly because despite catching up with all the Continue Reading
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How did the Star Wars Holiday Special come to be? Wonder no more #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou
SNAPSHOTA long time ago in living rooms across the US, a bizarre 98-minute Star Wars-themed variety show aired on CBS to an estimated 13 million viewers. It wasn’t necessarily the first of its kind: hosts like Donny & Marie Osmond and Richard Pryor had done TV variety shows with Star Continue Reading
Where is he? The hunt is on for Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (limited series teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOTStar Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat—the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. Star Continue Reading
All that is old is new again on Tatooine: The Book of Boba Fett
Like any franchise reasonably long in the tooth, in the vanishingly brief, blink-and-you’ll miss it timeframe of pop culture anyway, Star Wars always has to approach any new storytelling vehicles with the mindset of whether they intend to stick to a tried-and-true formula or going sprinting boldly forth (yes, that’s Continue Reading
“I am not a bounty hunter”: First trailer lands for The Book of Boba Fett
SNAPSHOTThe Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. (official Continue Reading
Once more to the galactic underworld with Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
SNAPSHOTThe Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. Star Continue Reading
Retro movie review: The Empire Strikes Back #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Pity the sequel to a blockbuster first film. Like the second sibling in a family where the eldest born cured cancer, fed the world’s poor and made successful and beneficial contact with aliens, all before the age of five, a sequel to a massively successful movie has an almost crushing Continue Reading
Book review – The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View by various authors #MayThe4thBeWithYou
The first three movies released in what has now been christened either the Star Wars Saga or The Skywalker Saga – these are now, of course, episodes four through six – are so imaginatively and expansively created that it is hard to imagine how you could possibly add anything further Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Artistically rendered The Mandalorian quotes
There is a fandom … and then there is FANDOM. That’s not to say that there’s a ranking in fandom; it’s anything but – if you like a show like The Mandalorian, and by extension, Star Wars overall, you are a fan however it is expressed by you. But there Continue Reading
Sit up and take notice: The history of Mandalore explained
SNAPSHOTThe saga of the planet Mandalore is spread across ’90s comic book series Tales of the Jedi, the animated series The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the live-action series The Mandalorian. Here is the history of Mandalore explained. (synopsis courtesy Laughing Squid) Keeping track of all the various Continue Reading