Tag Archives: The Force Awakens

I did not like this film. That may surprise some who have seen only the effusive gushing of the broader critical community. It will not surprise anyone who remembers my opinion of The Force Awakens. Or how Rogue One left ...

The structure and techniques used in film trailers have changed a lot over the years. What better way to get to grips with just how much has changed than by looking at the evolution of the trailers for a franchise ...

‘Yeah, I fight like a girl,’ says a defiant Isabela Moner in a trailer for the new Transformers film. And this irks me. Not because I am a misogynist simmering with rage at the slightest suggestion that feminism has infiltrated ...

Rogue One is out and, as a fitting follow-up to last year’s The Force Awakens, it turns out to be dreadful. We now have a track record being set. Under Disney’s management, the trends of the new Star Wars productions ...

The positive reviews started flooding in, giving me hope – but I’ve been burned before and I’ll be burned again. Are these critics seeing the same films I’m seeing? Rogue One is yet another example of what is wrong with ...

Long before we even had the prequels, the Star Wars universe was expanded upon by numerous novels and comics. Dark Empire is set in the years following the battle of Endor. Tom Veitch picks up the story of the Rebellion ...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has numerous scenes where characters scale and dart about amid the wreckage of Star Destroyers from the original trilogy. This serves as a good analogy for the film. A group of scavengers are frolicking about ...

Here’s where I become the contrary reviewer, disagreeing with almost every other review out there: I didn’t love Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was ok. (Seriously, was every other reviewer given LSD-laced water before hand? I want some of ...

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting cinemas next week, the Star Wars universe releases are cranking up. Almost every day sees the release of a new toy, comic book, or new-canon novel. The most recent addition to the story ...

StarWars.com snuck in some previously unreleased information in an article around Annie Leibovitz’s recent photos for Vanity Fair. Way down in the bottom of the seventh paragraph, Andy Serkis’s character in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released: ...