As a standalone, the new adventure is perfectly fine matinee fodder – but the galaxy is now so congested that we seem doomed to shiny retreads of the same old story
When Disney bought Lucasfilm for ro…
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing ⊖⊖
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The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough addition to the ever-expanding universe
Here is a non-canonical, or semi-canoni…
30 days ago
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi actor Michael Pennington dead at 82 ⊖
A masterful interpreter of Shakespeare, Pennington was nevertheless perhaps best known for his role as Moff Jerjerrod in George Lucas' 1983 sci-fi classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
33 days ago
Star Wars has to deliver a proper movie with The Mandalorian and Grogu – otherwise the franchise is dead ⊖⊖⊖
The long-suffering saga has been kept alive this decade by TV alone – but even that will perish if the new movie fails to extend its universe
Star Wars has always been big on prophecy. Yoda peers into…
3 months ago
Star Wars and Life Of Brian actor, 87, left bulk of £720,000 fortune to sister, close friends and cats home ⊖
Kenneth Colley played Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
8 months ago
Star Wars: Starfighter – what the new picture of Ryan Gosling tells us ○
Will the Shawn Levy-directed instalment, set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, offer a radial reinvention or return us to a period no one particularly wants to revisit?
How do you reinvent Star …
9 months ago
I was a chess prodigy trapped in a religious cult. It left me with years of fear and self-loathing ○
Growing up dirt poor in Arizona’s Church of Immortal Consciousness, I showed an early talent for the game. Soon the cult’s leader began grooming me to become a grandmaster – even if it meant separati…
Star Wars lightsaber used by Darth Vader fetches £2.7m at LA auction ○
Prop from first in franchise series one of several from science fiction and fantasy films to sell for large sums
The lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the original Star Wars film has sold for £2.7m at…
Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable? ○
The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs
There might just be a strange irony to this w…
11 months ago
Star Wars actor dies aged 87: Kenneth Colley passes away after catching Covid ○
The actor is best known for starring in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as Admiral Piett, an imperial officer in command of Darth Vader's flagship.