Star Wars

...as a Jedi, we realize about 2/3 of the way through the picture that the film is literally following the story arc of the first four Star Wars films. Imagine if A New Hope was interspersed with flashbacks from Phantom Menace, Attack of the...

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These sample pages from Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary reveals just a sampling of the plastic universe. When Star Wars met Lego 10 years ago, it seemed like just another licensing deal in Lucasfilm's endless chain of merchandising.

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...to a galaxy far, far away. Why settle for a simple handheld device when you can wait it out just a little bit longer for some bona fide "Star Wars" era technology? I firmly believe* that we're not far off from making official contact with...

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...the movie claims that the U.S. military developed a secret cadre in the 1980s code-named "Jedi warriors" (Ronald Reagan sure loved "Star Wars"). The soldiers were trained to hone their psychic and paranormal skills in order to read minds,...

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...Straughan's script and Jon Ronson's source book long before casting considerations. Just as Ronald Reagan is associated with the terms Star Wars and Evil Empire, the First Earth Battalion-era president was also reportedly a fan of the Jedi...

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...(an in-joke that is hilarious the first time around, given McGregor's presence in the film - he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the most recent "Star Wars" films - but loses something on or about, oh, the dozenth revisiting), running through...

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Django plays a bit like Bridges' Dude from "The Big Lebowski" had he joined the Marines. McGregor's "Star Wars" connection proves jarring as the film incorporates Ronson's references to psychic warriors as Jedi knights. It's cute once, but...

In this article: Jon Ronson, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Grant Heslov, and Jedi

Darth Vader and a Storm Trooper ready for ''Star Wars: In Concert' while the Virginia Symphony's David Vonderheide and Hazel Dean Davis prepare to work a little magic for ''Harry Potter's Musical Muggle Tour'' this Sunday. (L. Todd Spencer...

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Even today -- more than 30 years after the first film was released -- Daniels can't shake the shadow of "Star Wars." He's now on tour with "Star Wars: In Concert," a multi-media event featuring music from the movies, which comes to the...

In this article: Anthony Daniels, C3PO, Star Wars, Star Tours, The Clone Wars, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Disney, and Lucasfilm

DEVENDRA BANHART - BANHART: 'I HATED PORTMAN'S STAR WARS PREQUELS' BANHART: 'I HATED PORTMAN'S STAR WARS PREQUELS' Hippie rocker DEVENDRA BANHART steered his conversations with ex-girlfriend NATALIE PORTMAN away from her STAR WARS films...

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