WARNING: Article contains very minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. READ ON AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you prefer, check out our completely spoiler-free review HERE. Director J.J. Abrams had the unenviable task of bring a trio of trilogies and over forty years of Star Wars history to a
Yes, this whole review of Rise of Skywalker will be spoiler free. Not spoiler free for the last eight Star Wars films, but you get the idea. The whole review will be SPOILER FREE. Just to repeat it for anyone that clicks on this to read. Now with that out of the way... You're reading that right.
Variety Magazine writer Michael Schneider posed an interesting question: Can the Baby Yoda, or artificial characters in general, compete for awards? The initial answer is no, since both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actor's Guild have said there isn't an award for non-human characters in film. A
Two weeks and two days. That's all that separates us from the epic conclusion of a Star Wars saga that began some forty-two years ago. When Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters, Daisy Ridley (Rey) will be front and center. She's already featured prominently in nearly every film promo to
The Mandalorian's third episode, "The Sin", tops everything that the show has done previously. Without delving into spoilers for the show (really stretching my writing abilities here), we'll go over the majesty and awe of this third episode. Boy, oh boy, was it a doozy. If you missed my review of
Aside from Rian Johnson, no one person associated with Star Wars has had a target painted on them as big as the one on Kathleen Kennedy. The beleaguered Lucasfilm president's run has been nothing if not tempestuous. Under her watch, Star Wars relaunched with the blockbuster first installment of the
We got our first, live-action introduction to Mandalorian armor when Boba Fett appeared on screen in The Empire Strikes Back. The faceless, helmeted, battle-worn soldier became an instant fan favorite. But, as we'd come to learn, neither Boba, nor Jango from whom he was cloned, were actually born
Because there apparently hasn't been enough controversy in Star Wars the last few years, Disney decided to ramp it up with the launch of its streaming service, Disney+. What now, you ask? I almost feel ashamed on behalf of Disney and Lucasfilm to say, but… They've changed the cantina scene
The Sheep Detectives is a towering testament of how powerful animated stories can be when done right. A genuine crowdpleaser, the film is sure to warm and break your heart, wrestling with richly textured explorations of death and grief, lost and found families, and the necessity of memory.
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.
