As its plan to release 1,000 original movies and tv series by the end of 2018 reaches the halfway point, Netflix’s June offerings are, as they have been for a while now, heavy on the original content. There’s some good stuff in there, too: OG true-crime phenomenon The Staircase debuts new episodes on June 8, and…
According to The New York Daily News’ unnamed sources, Yoda might be appearing in the next Star Wars movie as a new mentor for Rey. Supposedly, he will show up “as a ghost” in a scene where he “acknowledges Rey’s success and growth as a Jedi.” That’s not a particularly shocking rumor, since Yoda materialized on Porg…
Simon Pegg has been the star, writer, or producer of several of The A.V. Club’s favorite comedies and sci-fi franchises, and he dropped by Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast recently to talk about virtually all of them.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now out on 4K UHD, so you can expect a fresh round of tweets about Reylo in addition to appreciation posts about the late Carrie Fisher. The Blu-ray release has also yielded some excellent outtakes, including a series of unfortunate slaps to Oscar Isaac’s handsome face. But Entertainment…
There’s something uniquely pleasant about watching a handsome actor get smacked in the face, particularly if it is being done by a veteran actor who has earned that right. Let us not forget the great Harrison-Ford-punching-Ryan-Gosling celebration of 2017, in which the elder Blade Runner took great delight in regaling…
Just as The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy inquired as to Itchy and Scratchy’s “magic xylophone,” so too have Star Wars fans sought to investigate the inconsistencies in the series’ space combat. Why must the Capital ships come so close to each other during combat? Why can TIE fighters fly through shields? How can a…
It looks like Mark Hamill may have spent his weekend digging through some of his old Star Wars boxes in the attic and reminiscing about the lightsaber duels of years past. The actor took to Twitter this week to share his trip down memory lane, and offer some criticism of the way Luke Skywalker has been portrayed in…
Back in November, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Prince William, Prince Harry, singer Gary Barlow, and actor Tom Hardy would all be making cameos as stormtroopers in The Last Jedi. However, when the film premiered, the foursome of overtly British First Order foot soldiers were nowhere to be seen. As it turns…
By all accounts, actress Laura Dern is a goddamn professional, weathering questions and franchise-powered obsession from such diverse fandoms as Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and Twin Peaks with unwavering grace and charm. But even legendary resolve can only go so far, which is why we’re delighted, but not surprised, to…
Star Wars fans turned out this morning at SXSW expecting to watch The Director And The Jedi, a documentary about the making of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. What they did not expect ended up being the best part of the event by far: the surprise arrival of Mark Hamill himself, joining director Rian Johnson and other…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is jam-packed with funky creatures, like the crystal foxes, the divisive cat-horses, the milk monster, and those perfect little Porgs, but one creature we didn’t get to spend too much time with was the Lanai, Ahch-To’s caretakers. Better known as the “fish nuns,” we only see them briefly in…
Captain Phasma is one of the more frustrating characters in the new Star Wars trilogy. In The Force Awakens, Phasma was set up to be the sadistic she-wolf of the First Order and the main antagonist for Finn. But by the film’s third act, she’d been easily dispatched, imprisoned, and dumped in a trash compactor. Phasma…
The list of Star Wars actors hoping to see Finn and Poe Dameron get romantic on the big screen continues to grow. Previously, Laura Dern told The L.A. Times that Finn-Poe would “be the most beautiful couple ever” and that there is plenty of room for more LGBTQ community representation in the franchise. Even Kelly…
At the beginning of the year, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson revealed that the novelization of the film will include a handful of extra sequences that didn’t fit in the movie, specifically a funeral scene for Han Solo and some more examples of Luke Skywalker being a jerk to Rey on the Porg planet. Not…
Stormtrooper height is a surprisingly contentious bit of Star Wars minutiae, one that’s raised questions on and off screen. And it appears to be the reason why a couple of royal cameos in The Last Jedi ended up on the cutting room floor.
[This article contains plot spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.]
J.J. Abrams left some big narrative holes for his predecessor, Rian Johnson, to fill when he shipped The Force Awakens off to theaters, questions like, “What’s up with Luke?” “Who is Snoke?” and “What’s the deal with Rey’s parents?” And while Johnson found satisfying answers for at least some of those queries—”Snoke…
In case you were wondering if our world got any less surreal overnight, there’s a controversy currently unfolding on Twitter where some Star Wars superfans are extremely upset with the creator of a popular Star Wars parody account. Let’s back up for a moment: Emo Kylo Ren (@KyloR3n) is a Twitter parody account that…
[This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the headline contains a spoiler for Star Wars: The Force Awakens that everyone should already know about by now.]
This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
