August 21st, 20151196 Throughout most of the Star Wars saga, we see a lineage of Skywalker descent make choices based on compromise, morals, and their life experiences -- in turn, forging a personal perspective or point of view. One’s choices or decisions in life don’t make them right or wrong, per se, rather a sense of righteousness or justification...
June 13th, 201591134Christopher Frank Carandini Lee -- May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015 Recently Star Wars fans were saddened to learn of the death of Sir Christopher Lee. He became an integral part of the Saga when he embodied Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Because of who he was — not solely within the world of Star Wars, but...
June 13th, 20156257As the new Jurassic Park movie thunders into theatres, Dr. Ian Malcolm’s (Jeff Goldblum) chaos theory discussion from the first film comes to mind. It fascinates me that chaos can be defined by something as simple as a droplet of water which rolls down a woman’s hand in different ways depending upon the most miniscule variables on...
May 21st, 20156784 Femininity Behind The Moon It’s no secret that the Star Wars saga is intricately laced with symbolism and mythology throughout its entirety. In fact, the amount of its ambiguity is so immense that the conversations continue to grow and flourish up until this very day, some thirty-eight years after it all began. One of the ongoing...
April 6th, 2015151 Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox Announce The most iconic movie collection of all time Becomes available for the first time On Digital HD on April 10, 2015 Now the Force will be with you – everywhere! BURBANK, Calif. – April 6, 2015 – As anticipation builds for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the...
March 7th, 20153264 Darth Vader introduced himself to moviegoers in 1977 as the ultimate, undiluted representation of evil. His cold voice and brooding physicality established him as a force of intimidation and relentless determination. With no military rank and no regard for rules or structure when they didn’t serve his motives or his allegiance to...
February 28th, 20151564 More LEGO Star Wars on the Way, just in time for The Force Awakens! The Star Wars Saga is getting the full LEGO treatment in an upcoming animated series set to air on Disney XD later this year. The Hollywood Reporter writes that the series will be a retelling of the Saga as seen through the eyes of R2-D2 and C-3P0. LEGO Star...
January 21st, 201526315 Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and some would say, “Love is in the air.” Of course, there are others that would go out of their way to avoid such romanticized cliché and literally dodge Cupid’s Arrow all together. On the other hand, is it really possible to prevent Love from happening? To deny someone, even thyself, the...
December 21st, 20146234 “We will all be challenged. Our trust … Our faith … Our friendships, but we must persevere.” -Obi-Wan Kenobi Not ALL holidays are special. Sometimes they can be painful memories of what “once was” or even a bowl full of hard candy “might-have-beens.” In light of the holiday season, there are quite a few to...
There is a scene in Attack of the Clones where Anakin visits Watto, his former master, and finds the Toydarian junk dealer in a state of poverty. The years following Skywalker’s emancipation have not been kind to the creature, who appears to have lost everything he owned due to some bad gambling losses that started with the Boonta...
