(courtesy IMP Awards) If religious dogma and legalistic ideology prove anything, it’s that a good many people like their beliefs neatly binary and plainly explained. They also want to believe, to an almost amusingly delusional degree, that the institutions charged with keeping those beliefs sustained and upheld are perfect and Continue Reading
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The mystery deepens: Review of Star Wars: The Acolyte E3 “Destiny” and E4 “Day”
(courtesy IMP Awards) Episode 3 “Destiny” WHAT HAPPENEDForce witches everyone! In this episode, Star Wars, which has always embraced the light and dark of its supernatural underpinnings gave grading and nuance to this duality, introducing Force practitioners, all women, who are not evil and have a strict, if spookily expressed, Continue Reading
Something sinister this way comes … Review of Star Wars: The Acolyte (S1, E1-2)
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you ever wondered, and honestly haven’t we all at one point or another, what it would be like if you blasted Agatha Christie into space where she played Cluedo/Clue (a Jedi master in hyperspace with a lightsaber) and got to sleuthing with Sherlock Holmes and far Continue Reading
Star Wars-n’t? Rebuild the Galaxy – a fun fresh alternative take on that galaxy far, far away …
(courtesy First Showing (c) Disney+) SNAPSHOTLEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a “four-piece” animated special. The entire Star Wars galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary nerf-herder, Sig Greebling (voiced by Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact called the Cornerstone found within a hidden Jedi temple. He finds Continue Reading
#StarWarsDay book review: Brotherhood by Mike Chen #MayThe4thBeWithYou
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Star Wars is defined in many ways by the relationships which fill it with a space operatic sense of connectiveness that powers the narrative and lends it a great deal more resonance that you might expect what it essentially a galactic Western. Han and Leia and Continue Reading
#StarWarsDay movie review: Star Wars – A New Hope #Maythe4thBeWithYou
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s always a fascinating exercise diving back into a film as an adult that, in your youth, defined how you see movies. You either love it all over again, not simply wrapped in a cosy cocoon of nostalgia but in awe of how good the story is Continue Reading
I sensed darkness: Trailer drops for Star Wars – The Acolyte
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“In an age of light, a darkness rises…” An investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past. As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems… Continue Reading
Master and apprentice: Star Wars Ahsoka (S1, E 1-5 review)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into some Star Wars shows, especially if you’re not one of those dedicated fans who has watched all the movie and shows, read all the graphic novels and books and devoured every last canonical morsel, can be more than a little intimidating. There’s a lot of Continue Reading
Once a rebel, always a rebel … full trailer drops for Star Wars’ Ahsoka
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created for Continue Reading
Perhaps it is time to begin again: New TV spot drops for Star Wars’ Ahsoka
(courtesy Gizmodo (c) Lucasfilm) SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created Continue Reading