The announcement of “Star Wars — Episode VII” and the “long-term plan to release a new ‘Star Wars’ feature film every two to three years,” according to Disney’s Bob Iger, has led to an explosion […]
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 […]
For the sake of simplicity, “Star Wars” stories can be divided into four eras. The classic trilogy era started with the movie “Star Wars” (1977), the post-“Return of the Jedi” era started in earnest with […]
‘Aliens/Predator’ Universe flashback (Movie review): Scott returns to his “Alien” universe to give us thinking fan’s sci-fi, for better or worse.
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). […]
This might be a sign that I’m obsessed: I just bought a “Star Wars” book about “Star Wars” books. To a non-fan, this might seem as silly as Kramer’s coffee table book about coffee tables […]
“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 […]
Although it came out more recently than the famous Thrawn trilogy (which I reviewed in recent posts), I didn’t remember the details of “Specter of the Past” (1997) as starkly as those more-heralded books. As I suspected […]
In the early days of TV, every episode was a standalone, so if you missed an episode you wouldn’t get lost. Eventually, we started to see more serial TV with ongoing stories that rewarded regular […]