For those like me who love The Last Jedi this might be good news. But for others obviously not so much....
“Rian and I talk all the time,” she [Kathleen Kennedy] said. “He is unbelievably busy. So we’re not actively involved in anything at the moment because he’s doing another one of the ‘Glass...
According to this recent article in Forbes, The Force Awakens was actually the most expensive movie ever made. Right now one estimate is that Avatar: The Way of Water had a production cost of about $460 million.
Most of it is probably just the circumstances involved with franchise productions...
In 1988 my Mom and I experienced in an LA theater James Earl Jones perform in the play Fences. Jones won a Tony Award for this role. As people here know, it's a heavy-duty dramatic play, and Jones gave a shattering performance, with at one point tears streaming down his face. It was powerful, to...
This Russian person watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time has a reaction similar to mine on opening night in 1980. (Although I didn't quite cry lol.)
Believe it or not, I'm teaching a whole college course on the Star Wars saga next semester. Books we are using include: Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You can Possibly Imagine, Star Wars and History, and How Star Wars Conquered the Universe. We'll also have lots of books, like the...
An article I wrote on The Politics Behind the Original Star Wars was just published by the LA Review of Books:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/politics-behind-original-star-wars
A brief preview
"....The politics behind the creation of the original film, A New Hope, reveals a rich...