TV updates from Star Wars Celebration (video)
There were a load of updates for fans of the Star Wars TV shows at Star Wars celebration – not least that the period of The Mandalorian is going to […]
Ridley returns as Rey for new Star Wars films
As part of the Star Wars Celebration currently running in London, Lucasfilm announced a new tranche of big screen movies, including the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey. Rey appears […]
RIP Norman Reynolds
Oscar-winning production designer Norman Reynolds has died 89. Reynolds was art director on the first two Superman movies as well the first of the Star Wars movies, and then became […]
Today’s Reviews: More sidequests for the Mandalorian?
We’re heading towards the end of the third season of The Mandalorian, but Nick Joy is querying the pace… This side quest looks good, features some big guest stars and […]
Today’s Reviews: The end for The Bad Batch?
The final episode of this season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch brings together a lot of themes from the whole series: If The Empire Strikes Back was shocking because of the […]
Today’s Reviews: Bad Batch pack a punch
There’s a lot of threads coming together in the antepenultimate episode of this season of The Bad Batch: You could substitute Jedi and clones for migrants and trans people and […]
Today’s Reviews: Mandalorian firing on all cylinders
It’s felt sometimes as if the Star Wars TV series has been foundering this season – but things are back on course this week: Shiver me timbers, this here be […]
Today’s Reviews: A Welcome Break for the clones
Episode 13 of the new season sees the clones get a chance to catch their breath… The Bad Batch never forgets that the clones, including Omega, are refugees and their lives […]
Today’s Reviews: Collusion’s cost for Crosshair
There’s a rare look at the price tag for colluding with the enemy in The Bad Batch: Crosshair’s reason for siding with the Empire was that he believed they were […]
Today’s Reviews: Learning about The Foundling
In a short episode of The Mandalorian, we learn some more of Grogu’s past… It does feel a bit inconsequential to the main narrative, though director Carl Weathers is clearly […]
Today’s Reviews: Retconning The Return?
The Bad Batch’s setting between the second and third Star Wars trilogies allows its creators to retcon certain elements of the sequels… The developments this episode set us up nicely […]
Today’s Reviews: A sidestep for The Mandalorian
It’s not just the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda… sorry, Grogu… show this week… It’s a curious change of pace at this early point in the season, the side story feeling […]
Today’s Reviews: Spotlighting the differences
The Bad Batch never fails to surprise with the topics it tackles in what’s ostensibly a kids’ animated Star Wars show: As a piece of representation both of neuro-divergence and […]
Today’s Reviews: Scoring the Light & Magic
The recent documentary about Industrial Light & Magic is well worth your time – and we’ve taken a listen to the underlying score: It does have character motifs, which in […]
Today’s Reviews: The truth of power
The Bad Batch is showing the seamier side of the Empire in a way that’s not been seen in Star Wars animated form before… Power loves those it can use, […]
Today’s Reviews: A Wookie encounter
The Bad Batch help someone in need and end up with a lot of Wookies in episode 6: It’s an underexamined portion of Star Wars that both clones and droids […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 