Because watching the six episodic “Star Wars” films for the ump-hundredth time isn’t always appealing, it’s fun to approach those familiar stories from less-notable angles every now and then: The novelizations, the comic adaptations, the “Tales” short stories, […]
When the “Episode VII — The Force Awakens” teaser trailer came out a couple months ago, it wasn’t Rey or Finn or Poe or the Sith lord who got the most buzz. The “character” people were most […]
Movie review: James Gunn’s first MCU entry looks great, but doesn’t have much of a point.
Out of all the Legends stories that went unfinished due to Disney’s rebooting of the timeline, none is more of a cliffhanger than the “Force Unleashed” saga. At the end of 2010’s “The Force Unleashed […]
‘Star Wars’ Legends flashback (TV review): Here’s a look back at “Droids,” which (along with “Ewoks”) brought the GFFA to weekly series TV.
‘Star Wars’ flashback (TV review): Future icon Boba Fett makes an inauspicious debut into the Expanded Universe in this Holiday Special cartoon.
“The Force Unleashed” (2008) – the multimedia project highlighted by a video game, novel and comic — despite being a fairly recent endeavor, is among the first Legends material to be wiped out by the new Disney canon (specifically […]
Throughout the entire George Lucas “Star Wars” reign, we never got Yoda’s backstory, partly because it was declared off limits and partly because few authors would be brave enough to tackle such a responsibility. However, […]
Movie review: Like “2001” and “Contact,” “Interstellar” shows science and spirituality can coexist in a grand space adventure.
While I disagree with the canceling of the Expanded Universe, one positive aspect of the new Disney canon is that all future projects will be connected to each other. On the other hand, part of […]