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Star Wars: Forces of Destiny ‘Ewok Escape’ arrives online, watch it here

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After two adventures with Rey and BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney and Lucasfilm have turned their attention to the Original Trilogy for the latest episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, as Leia and Wicket tangle with a pair of Imperial Stormtroopers on the Forest Moon of Endor. Take a look at […]

Watch Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – ‘BB-8 Bandits’

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Disney and Lucasfilm have released the second episode of the new animated series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny. Entitled ‘BB-8 Bandits’, the short sees Rey and BB-8 being pursued by scavangers looking to steal the droid; check it out below and watch the first episode ‘Sands of Jakku’ here… The first eight episodes of Star […]

Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley and Rian Johnson discuss Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Much of Star Wars: The Last Jedi will reportedly focus on the relationship between Luke Skywalker and Rey, although as suggested in the trailer, it doesn’t seem like this is going to be quite the relationship that Rey expected when she travelled to Ahch-To to meet her hero at the end of Star Wars: The […]

Colin Trevorrow on the downside of directing Star Wars: Episode IX

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While getting the chance to direct a Star Wars movie seems like it would be the opportunity of the lifetime (assuming you don’t decide to go off script and make a comedy, of course), filmmaker Colin Trevorrow has revealed that there is one major drawback – you lose the experience of seeing a new Star […]

Critical Thinking: Don’t Believe the Hype

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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 […]

Watch the first episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – ‘Sands of Jakku’

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Disney and Lucasfilm have released the first episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, the new animated series focussing on the female heroes of the galaxy far, far away. In the episode, titled ‘Sands of Jakku’, Rey (voiced by Daisy Ridley) and BB-8 find themselves pursued by a hungry Night Watcher worm; check it out […]

Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing

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Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]

Are franchise blockbusters too big to fail?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether franchise blockbusters are too big to fail… Sequels, prequels and reboots. Hollywood is in love with the familiar because more often than not it’s a safe bet. This year’s monumental blockbuster clusterfuck Justice League is proof of that. Can you think of a big studio film more maligned? More inherently flawed […]

The LEGO Movie Franchise: The Marriage of Movies and Merchandising

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Sarah Myles on The LEGO Movie franchise and the marriage of movie merchandising…  Forty years ago, there was a seismic shift in the film industry, when Bernard Loomis of Kenner Toys decided that Star Wars was ‘toyetic.’ That shift, all those years ago, has led us on a journey of courtship between movies and merchandising, […]