Neil Calloway on Disney suffocating Star Wars… After American Graffiti, George Lucas spent a while shoving his Western in space script under the nose of anyone who cared to read it. They gave him suggestions on how to improve it, he took them on, and a few years later he finally shot the film. It […]
The Week in Star Wars – More trouble for Lucasfilm as Episode IX loses its director, who is The Last Jedi and more
The Week in Star Wars returns with bad news coming from the Lucasfilm camp, Rian Johnson’s comments on The Last Jedi and a load of toy images… Right, so let’s look at the Colin Trevorrow situation then. It was revealed this week that Trevorrow (Jurassic World) had become the fourth director since the Disney-era to […]
Like All Winners, Star Wars Gets Attacked, But I’d Rather Celebrate Its Success
Samuel Brace on the Star Wars saga… Is Star Wars in crisis? Please. Let’s not lose our minds, let’s celebrate its success. With the recent news that Star Wars: Episode IX has lost its director, Colin Trevorrow, coming off the back of news regarding the Han Solo movie and how it has also changed its […]
Sideshow’s Captain Phasma Premium Format Figure from Star Wars: The Force Awakens revealed
Following all the exciting Force Friday II reveals for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Sideshow has now unveiled its Premium Format Captain Phasma figure which is based on the likeness of Gwendoline Christie’s First Order officer from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $530, and is expected to […]
Hot Toys unveils new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Cosbaby Bobble-Heads
Hot Toys has revealed its third series of Cosbaby Bobble-Heads for Star Wars: The Force Awakens which includes three collectible sets – Han Solo & Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker & Rey, and Rey & BB-8 along with three large sized Cosbabies of Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, and a First Order Stormtrooper Officer; check them out here…. […]
Mark Hamill on Luke Skywalker’s story between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens
Aside from a brief outline of events – he forms a new Jedi Order, is betrayed by Kylo Ren, and heads off to Ahch-To for a self-imposed exile, we know very little of what Luke Skywalker has been up to in the galaxy far, far away between the end of Return of the Jedi and […]
Comic Book Review – Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel
Jessie Robertson reviews IDW’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens graphic novel… Reading this book takes me directly back to the 90’s and reading the “Junior Novelization” of Jurassic Park; a trumped up picture book with small excerpts from the movie. When someone gave that to me, that hadn’t a clue I’d already finished the actual […]
Preview of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel
IDW releases its first Star Wars YA comic book this week with the arrival of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel; check out a preview here… Faithfully capturing the galaxy-spanning action of The Force Awakens, join Rey, Finn, BB-8, Kylo Ren, and all your favorite characters, new and old, on the adventure of a […]
Why You Should Avoid All Movie Marketing
Neil Calloway argues that believing the hype only leads to disappointment… I can pinpoint the precise moment the scales fell from my eyes and I stopped believing the hype. It was a morning in 1999, and George Lucas was sitting in a shed not far from where I now live, autographing a pair of boxer […]
Critical Thinking: Don’t Believe the Hype
Anghus Houvouras on hype and hyperbole… Hype is something every film writer constantly struggles with. The perpetual entertainment news cycle gives film fans so much to chew on. There’s a formulaic cycle of hype that happens with every new movie that strokes the cockles of film fans. Some movies come with preordained hype. A new […]
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