Episode 1,639: 2018 Movies – the Star Wars Year in Review
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We wrap up our year in review with a different look at the box office response to Solo: A Star Wars Story, and see what DVD sales 2018 have to […]
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We wrap up our year in review with a different look at the box office response to Solo: A Star Wars Story, and see what DVD sales 2018 have to […]
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It’s been weird, going through this December without having a Star Wars movie … and then Solo: A Star Wars Story co-writer Jon Kasdan wonders in a tweet how things […]
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The last of the one-shot stories we’re going to talk about for a while, this one reveals the job that Tobias Beckett and crew were working just before they got […]
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You’ve seen Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. de-aged for Marvel movies, but what would it have been like if they de-aged Harrison Ford for Solo: A Star Wars Story? […]
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For a franchise that has been described by George Lucas and countless other Lucasfilm creatives as being primarily for kids, the movies and TV shows sure manage to get into […]
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Back in Episode 1,233 in November 2017, I interviewed Georgetown University physics professor Patrick Johnson, author of The Physics of Star Wars. In the book (which came out six months […]
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Left behind by his father. Left behind by Beckett. Left behind by Qi’ra. Han Solo’s got some major abandonment issues. And it informs his character deeply, from the earnestness of […]
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Now that we’ve spent all this time looking at the trees, what about the forest? So to speak, that is. We’ve dug into the depths of the Solo: A Star […]
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After all the double-crosses are said and done, who did what they were expected to do, and why? Qi-ra’s motivations, in particular, get much clearer in our look at the […]
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In full disclosure, our deep dive into the Solo: A Star Wars Story novelization is mostly about L3-37, Lando, and his decision to leave Han, Chewie, Beckett, and Qi-ra behind […]