(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
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Graphic novel review: The intertwining tales of Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories (1-4) #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
Any journey into the world of Star Wars is a good one. Granted some of the delivery may not be the best at times but overall the franchise has a knack for crafting beguiling tales full of characters who, by virtue of being out in space, have a certain exotically Continue Reading
Well hello Admiral Ackbar! Find out where some of Star Wars most fantastical creatures are born #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
SNAPSHOTDo you know where Star Wars most Fantastical creatures are born? Well a lot of its weirdest and most wonderful characters come to life in a South London workshop and Gustav Hogan is the man behind them…Gustav’s been making monsters for three decades and he’s taking a look back at his creations. Continue Reading
Sci-fi streaming round-up! The Mandalorian (S3, E7-8) and Picard (S3, E9-10)
It is the end of things in these episodes from Star Trek: Picard season 3 and The Mandalorian season 3, and yet at the same time, very much not. While The Mandalorian has a clearly flagged fourth season beckoning, Picard ends its three-season run with this series of ten episodes, Continue Reading
Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi. Teaser trailer introduces us to Ahsoka
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 the animated series Continue Reading
Grab your light sabers and your Bantha! We’re going on a LEGO Star Wars: Summer Vacation
Can you ever take a holiday from being a hero? That’s the question topmost on Rose Tico’s (Kelly Marie Tran) mind when everyone, and by everyone we mean a phalanx of Star Wars: Skywalker Saga including Finn (Omar Miller), Poe (Jake Green), Rey (Helen Sadler), R2-D2, C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and Continue Reading
Small acts lead to a seismic change on Andor (S1, E10-12 review)
——————– SPOILERS AHEAD ——————– Rebellions, and the revolutions they often, though not always, give rise to, are often big disruptive things. Intrinsically a militantly passionate act of opposition to oppressive or authoritarian government, they often involve big epic moments such people deciding en masse that enough is enough, mass acts Continue Reading
An ever-growing pushback – on both sides … Thoughts on Andor (S1, E7-9 review)
As a people, we are in love with the idealism of taking a stand against something. In the hallowed, lofty part of our minds where noble intent and purity of belief exist, there dwells an incorruptible part of us that sees the world in the possible and the hopeful, that Continue Reading
The rebellion gathers pace: Andor (S1, E4-6 review)
There is a tendency, an understandable one it should be added, to view insurgencies against tyranny and authoritarianism as wholly noble and heroic. That they are noble and heroic goes without saying – you cannot take on a fight of such gargantuan, near impossible-to-win proportions and not possess impressive quantities Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Thoughts on Andor (S1, E1-3)
Star Wars has never been short of weight issues at the core of its storytelling. From the moment A New Hope, then just good old Star Wars before it begat a sprawlingly beguiling franchise, scrolled in memorable yellow and black across cinema screens in 1977, George Lucas’s take of good Continue Reading