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Watch the Rebels Recon featurette for Star Wars Rebels – ‘Jedi Night’ and ‘DUME’

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Tragedy struck the crew of the Ghost last night as Star Wars Rebels returned to Disney XD for its final run of episodes, and the official Star Wars YouTube channel has released the Rebels Recon breakdown for the episodes ‘Jedi Night’ and ‘DUME’, which you can watch here… Jedi Night’ – The Ghost Crew infiltrates the […]

Solo: A Star Wars Story character posters get a LEGO makeover

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Earlier this month Disney and Lucasfilm revealed four character posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and now the posters have been given the LEGO treatment; take a look at the Han, Chewie, Lando and Qi’ra minifigure posters here… SEE ALSO: Check out LEGO’s Solo: A Star Wars Story Kessel Run Millennium Falcon set A new adventure […]

J.J. Abrams calls out sexist Star Wars: The Last Jedi critics

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Disney and Lucasfilm have made great strides with regards to increasing the representation of the galaxy far, far away over the past few years, but it seems the increased emphasis on female characters and diversity hasn’t quite sat right with some ‘fans’. Take for example the alt-right group who claimed to have lowered the Rotten […]

Hasbro reveals new Star Wars: The Vintage Collection and Black Series action figures

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A few days ago we got a look at a selection of Hasbro’s upcoming action figures for Solo: A Star Wars Story [see here], and now Hasbro has revealed some of its upcoming Star Wars: The Vintage Collection and Star Wars: The Black Series offerings for 2018, which includes characters from Solo, The Force Awakens, […]

Is ‘Non-Violent’ Violence in Movies Immoral?

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Samuel Brace on ‘non violent’ violence in cinema… Violence is rampant in the cinematic space. And it’s not just in films made for adults; it’s also a main marketable feature of movies that target children. Of course, the world is an extremely violent place so therefore one can’t overly complain about such acts being present […]

Solo: A Star Wars Story’s Alden Ehrenreich and Jon Kasdan explain why the Millennium Falcon looks so different inside

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As we’ve seen from the trailers and recent promotional material for Solo: A Star Wars Story, the iconic Millennium Falcon is receiving a makeover for its appearance in May’s Anthology movie, and not just on the exterior with its fancy blue paint job and overhauled bow. As you can see in the images in this […]

Promo images for Star Wars Rebels season 4 – ‘Jedi Night’

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Yesterday we got a clip from Monday’s episode of Star Wars Rebels featuring Grand Admiral Thrawn interrogating Hera [watch it here], and now we have a batch of images from ‘Jedi Night’ which you can check out below. You may notice there are no images from ‘DUME’, the second of the two episodes to air […]

UPDATE: Ron Howard reveals that Jon Favreau has a “cool and important” role in Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Having voiced the character of Pre Vizsla in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it seems that Jon Favreau is set for a return to the galaxy far, far away this May, with Ron Howard revealing that Favreau will “voice a very cool and important alien character” in Solo: A Star Wars Story. The reveal happened […]

Solo: A Star Wars Story tie-in books, novels and comics unveiled

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As the marketing for Solo: A Star Wars Story kicks in, we’ve got a look at the cover artwork for a batch of tie-in books and comics which are set to accompany the release of May’s Star Wars anthology movie; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Hasbro’s Solo: A Star Wars Story action figures unveiled A new […]