Now that the final season has finished, we figured it’d be the perfect time to sit down and talk about why The Bad Batch worked so well, both as a Clone Wars spinoff and a Star Wars series with a voice of its own. After Clone Force 99 debuted in the final season of The … Read more
Skeleton Crew hit a bit of a slump last week with a fourth episode that nailed the sincere exchanges between characters, but not much else. Thankfully, episode 5 – directed by Beef and Thunderbolts’ Jake Schreier – has the spark of the first three and completely embraces Star Wars’ more colorful and unserious side. Mind … Read more
How much Star Wars is too much Star Wars? Disney and Lucasfilm don’t think we’ve reached critical mass yet. On top of the many Star Wars shows already available on Disney Plus — and the five Star Wars movies released post-Disney acquisition so far— many more projects are in development, with a renewed focus on … Read more
Skeleton Crew continues to be the rare sort of on-screen Star Wars that’s content with just doing its own thing. Somehow, we’re already at the halfway point of the season, and while we’re still crossing our fingers that a deepfaked Luke Skywalker doesn’t show up to derail this fun romp with a link to the … Read more
Skeleton Crew, the latest live-action Star Wars show on Disney Plus, debuted last week with a pretty fun and uncomplicated two-episode premiere. In its third chapter, we get to venture further into a swashbuckling adventure full of scallywags and alien locales. But, more surprisingly, we also obtain more answers than we’d expected this early on. … Read more
All those spaceships, droids, lightsabers, and scoundrels had a big part to play in capturing the imaginations of a generation back in 1977. Even so, there’s a much subtler moment that arguably defines the original ‘Star Wars’ movie better than any other. Young farmer Luke Skywalker, told by his uncle that he needs to stay … Read more