Michael Arndt will join a select group when he writes “Star Wars: Episode VII,” slated for a 2015 release. Although there are four previous “Star Wars” movie writers among the six episodes, only two of […]
As I kind of expected — but don’t really understand — the consensus in the world of fans and punditry in the wake of the “Star Wars — Episode VII” announcement is that the sequels will almost […]
Following Tuesday’s galaxy-shattering announcement that George Lucas had sold Lucasfilm to Disney, and that Lucas and other creative people are going to collaborate on a sequel trilogy starting in 2015 (Lucas actually used the phrase “Episode […]
We’re in a curious situation right now where 94 percent of the country supports pro-war presidential candidates yet other polls show that the majority of people are against war (although most of Congress is pro-war). […]
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (8:30 a.m. Central Saturdays, Cartoon Network), which has switched from Friday nights to Saturday mornings with little fanfare for its fifth season, isn’t content to ease into a new batch of […]
Ah, fall TV. And, in a nice old-school twist, the Entertainment Weekly Fall TV Preview issue highlighted a single show on its cover rather than using a collage (the featured show: “Homeland,” which seems worthy, […]
The 2011-12 TV season has almost faded to snow and the dust has settled from the cancellation carnage. Looking back, I’d say it was a very good season for characters. That’s why I’m resurrecting my […]
The “Star Wars” saga has a weird tendency to tell stories out of order. Most notably, the film saga started with Episode IV. The books and comics are rife with stories that fill in the […]
In the 1983 documentary “From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga,” George Lucas talks about how a lot of movies like to show off the work of the construction crew on screen. […]
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (7 p.m. Central Fridays on Cartoon Network) is currently in the midst of its first-ever adaptation from another medium: It has adapted the first two-thirds of Henry Gilroy’s 2008-09 six-issue Dark […]