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It’s hard to believe that it’s only been eleven days since the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer on a Minneapolis street. Since then, America has broken […]
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Carrie Fisher was the social conscience of the Original Trilogy, calling attention to women’s rights and feminist issues. John Boyega is the social conscience of the Sequel Trilogy, calling attention […]
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If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, you may recall that I was invited to deliver a talk at an official TEDx event in November 2019. The […]
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We were going to talk about the launch of Queen’s Peril today. A couple months ago, I felt compelled to step out of the stream of our usual Star Wars […]
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From novels to reference books, comics to documentaries, here’s what we know is coming for Star Wars in June 2020 – and speculation about movies, live action series. animation, and […]
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“Legacy” is the second episode of the Disney+ series Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian. A snippet from that episode has been making the rounds on social media, wherein executive […]
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So here’s how this happened… In looking at The Rise of Skywalker and comparing it to Return of the Jedi over the past few days, I’ve been thinking a lot […]
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Imagine with me, if you will, a different Return of the Jedi. The primary protagonist/antagonist conflict is not with Luke and Palpatine, it’s with Luke and Vader. And yet they […]
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When we looked at The Force Awakens, it was remarkable how much it lined up with the events of A New Hope. Then we looked at The Last Jedi, and […]
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Return of the Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker start their bad guys in similar places. No one walking into Return of the Jedi ever thought that redemption was in […]