On Friday, “The Empire Strikes Back” marks its 30th anniversary. That’s right, 30 years ago, the movie industry was capable of putting out a Memorial Day weekend blockbuster that people wanted to see and that was not […]
Aaron Allston became my favorite “Star Wars” author when I read his first book, “X-Wing: Wraith Squadron,” back in 1998. Allston, taking the “X-Wing” baton from Michael Stackpole but running faster with it, demonstrated and […]
If you’re in the right mood, movies about some guy mowing down a bunch of reanimated corpses — Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive” comes to mind — can be quite amusing and entertaining. But in book […]
When Boba Fett appeared 30 years ago in “The Empire Strikes Back” wearing Mandalorian armor (so named in the “Empire” novelization) that was associated with the Clone Wars (a vague concept mentioned by Obi-Wan in […]
Now that 5,000 years of “Star Wars” lore have been mapped out, from the earliest days of the Sith and Jedi to the generation after Luke Skywalker, it’s not surprising that time-travel tales are starting […]
Ki Adi-Mundi (in “The Phantom Menace”): “The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.” Yoda (later in the same movie): “Two there are always, a master and an apprentice.”
The “Star Wars” movies are essentially the story of the Skywalker family, but there is so much more happening on a larger scale (the Clone Wars, and then the Galactic Civil War that grew from […]
Twenty-five years ago in “The Terminator,” James Cameron worried that technology would spell the end of mankind. In his subsequent films, he continued to mull our arrogance about what we create. In “Aliens,” we had […]
Next, here are my top 10 … OK, 20 … movies of the Aughts. 1. “Garden State” (2004) — I’m not going to lie: This is just a romantic fairy tale — average Joe finds true love with […]
Next, here are my top 10 TV shows. Some started in the ’90s, but for this list, I am just showing the years they aired during this decade. This top 10 is front-loaded (the most […]