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The Empire didn’t see X-wings firing proton torpedos into an exhaust port as a problem. Perhaps they’d have benefited from better systems analysis.
JJ Abrams made a terrible Star Trek film that perfectly prepared him to make a great Star Wars movie.
How to build a movie empire that will last for generations.
The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
It’s not easy – but we are moving in the right direction.
Cinema is evolving into a multi-sensory spectacular.
Amid the din of cries about a ‘ban’ and the prayer ‘causing offence’ the Lord’s prayer advert has got more media traction than it would had it been screened.
For all the speculative commentary as to what the new Star Wars trailer reveals plot-wise, its true “force” is surely located in the various sounds that infuse this perfectly constructed teaser.
The next film in the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, comes out in December. But promotion has already started with all manner of tie-in products up for sale.
Star Wars is not a complete picture of human life, but is a way of pointing us to contemplate and live life more authentically.
Though set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” it isn’t hard to see in the Star Wars films a vision of our own not so distant future. But Anthony Jones, a physician with a long background in health…
A beautiful assassin. A superstrong thug. A star-lost child of the ‘80s. A sentient tree. A gun-toting raccoon. Meet the morally gray protagonists of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the film that raked…
Much of the excitement of fantastical and science fictional worlds is the sense of history they have, their depth, and the joy of sharing them with others. Whether it be Star Trek, Star Wars, or Back to…
Fans of science fiction must be disheartened when introduced to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Dreams of galactic empires, criss-crossed by roguish princesses and beautiful smugglers, go out…
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