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Modern Mainstream Film: Passable and Disposable?

November 24, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at modern mainstream cinema. Is it being led by disposable content over long-standing legacy?  The pace at which the world evolves can be frightening sometimes. You blink, suddenly you look around and you’re 40, you’ve got a house, wife, kid and you make groaning noises when you bend down to pick something […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: avengers: endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Disney, Free Guy, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Marvel, No Time to Die, Star War: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Addams Family 2

When It’s Time to Let Go of Star Wars

August 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on that fateful day when you realise Star Wars is no longer being made for you. Let go, you must… Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi has been and gone. Rather than roaring like a hungry Wampa, it meekly wheeled itself out like an R2 unit which can no longer beep and boop like it […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Disney, Ewan McGregor, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, Lucasfilm, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, star wars: Obi-wan kenobi, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas tears into Disney’s Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

September 22, 2021 by EJ Moreno

It’s no surprise that some people did not like Disney’s take on the Star Wars saga. Since the relaunch under the Disney brand with 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the new films have been met with harsh criticism from many fans of George Lucas’ space opera. The debate about the new films, initially crafted by […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: George Lucas, J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, Marcia Lucas, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

J.J. Abrams opens up about the lack of planning on the Star Wars sequels

May 28, 2021 by Matt Rodgers

J.J. Abrams has a lot to say right now. Not only is he developing a Superman reboot for Warner Bros., and working on an adaptation of the popular videogame Portal, but he’s also celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the release of Super 8, and it’s while doing the rounds promoting his ode-to-Spielberg that he opened […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: J.J. Abrams, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Kelly Marie Tran says she doesn’t know if she could play Star Wars’ Rose Tico again

March 9, 2021 by Matt Rodgers

To celebrate International Women’s Day, IGN paired up voice actor Cissy Jones with Raya and the Last Dragon star Kelly Marie Tran to discuss their respective careers, and one of the biggest takeaways to come from the chat was the fact that despite saying she would consider a return to the Star Wars universe for […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Kelly Marie Tran, Raya and the Last Dragon, Rose Tico, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson thanks fans on the film’s three-year anniversary

December 16, 2020 by Samuel Brace

Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has thanked fans for their support on the film’s three year anniversary. It has been three years since Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit theatres. Time sure does fly. The Rian Johnson film was the second entry in the sequel trilogy, later followed up by […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: Rian Johnson, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Rian Johnson considered using Anakin Skywalker’s force ghost in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

December 2, 2020 by Samuel Brace

Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, says he considered using Anakin’s force ghost in the movie instead of Yoda. One of the biggest surprises of The Last Jedi was the moment that Yoda appeared as a force ghost to Luke. It was a great moment but director Rian Johnson did consider […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: Rian Johnson, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

John Boyega says his Star Wars co-stars were supportive of his Sequel Trilogy criticism, open to returning as Finn

October 28, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Many Star Wars fans found themselves underwhelmed by Disney and Lucasfilm’s Sequel Trilogy – including one who just so happened to be part of the core cast of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. John Boyega, who plays the Stormtrooper-turned-Resistance big shot Finn, certainly hasn’t been shy when it comes […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars book offers more background information on Supreme Leader Snoke

October 16, 2020 by Amie Cranswick

Having been set up as one of the big mysteries of the Sequel Trilogy in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Supreme Leader Snoke found himself cut down in Star Wars: The Last Jedi before being brushed aside completely in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with a throwaway reveal that the First Order mastermind was […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Luke Skywalker also died in George Lucas’ treatment for Star Wars: Episode VIII

October 14, 2020 by Samuel Brace

It has been revealed that Luke Skywalker also died in the middle chapter of George Lucas’ planned Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a controversial film with one of the reasons being the decision to kill Luke Skywalker. Luke returned after his death by becoming one with the force but the […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: George Lucas, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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