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New Solo: A Star Wars Story character promo images revealed with Topps Trading Cards

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Thanks to Topps, we’ve got a whole host of new promotional images for next month’s Star Wars Anthology movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, courtesy of the upcoming range of trading cards; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Ron Howard says Alden Ehrenreich is not doing a Harrison Ford impression in Solo: A Star Wars Story […]

Star Wars Rebels final season return date revealed, episode descriptions tease character death

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The final season of Star Wars Rebels has been on its winter hiatus for a couple months now, but now fans have a date for the show’s return from Jedi-Bibliothek. The crew of the Ghost will be coming back on February 24th. We also have episode descriptions for the winter premiere as well as the episode airing […]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t As Good Or Bad As You Think It Is

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Neil Calloway tries to find middle ground with the latest Star Wars film… Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It’s been over a week, you’ve had time to go through the stages of grief and finally come to acceptance that The Last Jedi is a fairly decent film, or if you won’t […]

Paul Bettany describes Solo: A Star Wars Story as a gangster movie, says Ron Howard reshot more than originally planned

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Despite being just five months away from release, we’re yet to see a first trailer for Disney and Lucasfilm’s next Star Wars offering, Solo: A Star Wars Story. However, while we wait, we do have some comments from Paul Bettany, a late addition to the cast who came on during the film’s reshoots to take […]

Movie Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017. Written and Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran, Benicio del Toro, Billie Lourd, Gwendoline Christie, Lupita Nyong’o, Jimmy Vee, Tim Rose, Warwick Davis, Hermione Corfield, […]

An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics

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Anghus Houvouras on Rian Johnson’s perplexing relationship with Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics… When forging our opinions, we spend a unnecessary amount of time worrying about being on the ‘right’ side of an argument. When it comes to cinema, there is no ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There are only widely varying feelings of the entire human […]

Rian Johnson talks about Luke’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi fate and involvement in Episode IX

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Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow… One of the biggest issues fans have taken with The Last Jedi is how it dealt with the character of Luke Skywalker, including the character’s apparent death at the film’s end. Of course death isn’t quite the same for a Jedi as it is for everyone […]

The Problem With Fan Expectations

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Henry Bevan on the problem with fan expectations… I love Spider-Man. Spider-Man 2 is my favourite superhero film, I was addicted to 1990s TV show. Tobey Maguire is an underrated actor. But, I didn’t like Spider-Man: Homecoming, at first. I hated how Peter’s quest to be a hero relegated the supporting characters and I felt […]

Star Wars fan launches petition to have The Last Jedi removed from official canon

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Despite earning rave reviews from critics, fans are split on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with many expressing their disappointment at the latest chapter in the iconic space opera. However, one fan – Henry Walsh – is so outraged by the movie that he’s launched a petition to have The Last Jedi removed from official […]