‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ episode 5: What’s hidden inside Skull Ridge Mountain?

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

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ episode 3: What’s Jod Na Nawood’s true identity?

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

‘Dune: Prophecy:’ ‘Twice Born:’ Plans go awry, people die, and what’s behind those blue eyes?

Fill a glass of spiked eggnog as we streak toward the finish line of “Dune: Prophecy!” The cold stone walls of the Harkonnen brood’s gothic apartment on Salusa Secundus are a bit more accommodating than the smell of furry leviathan flesh inside their bleak hovel on the chilly planet of Lankiveil many decades earlier, and … Read more