When director George Lucas first unleashed Star Wars (1977) on an unsuspecting movie-going public, effectively creating an epic saga that would last decades and entertain millions of fans throughout the world, he couldn’t possibly have foreseen (inference intended) that his film would still be impacting cinemas today. Now, the third trilogy of the Star Wars saga comes to a fitting end in Star Wars...[Read More]
It’s been a few weeks since Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi) took us back to a galaxy far, far away, and that film is still one of the only things the internet can talk about these days. From people loving it(like this writer) to fans getting so upset that they started a petition to strike it from the official cannon, writer/director Rian Johnson’s vision of the Sta...[Read More]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens needed to do two things. First of all, it needed to erase the sour memory of the prequels, at least in the minds of ardent Star Wars fans. Secondly, it needed to prove it could stand with the original trilogy as a fitting sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983). Amazingly, it does both. From the opening crawl, which packs more excitement into it than any of the crawls from...[Read More]