Star Wars (1977)
+Movies | May 25, 2012

Star Wars Turns 35: How TIME Covered the Film Phenomenon

By Richard Corliss

On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie screens. TIME takes a fond look back at George Lucas' little science-fantasy project.

+Movies | February 26, 2012

Navy SEALs' Act of Valor Takes Oscar Weekend

By Richard Corliss
Relativity Media / Courtesy Everett Collection

The Pentagon-approved action film locks down the No. 1 slot, as the Oscar-favorite silent film “The Artist” manages only a whisper

Populist+Movies | February 10, 2012

10 Things We (Still) Kinda Hate About The Phantom Menace

By Wook Kim
Lucasfilm / 20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Courtesy Everett Collection.

To mark the new 3-D release of the first episode in the ‘Star Wars’ saga, we grimly catalog some of its big failures and disappointments

+Review Movies | January 19, 2012

Red Tails: So Square It Can Barely Fly

By Mary Pols
20th Century Fox / AP

The gee whiz stamp of George Lucas is all over this film—tons of flying action, dialogue of almost exquisite hamminess, a tale of good and evil and not much more.

+Movies | January 12, 2012

“The Help is not a black film. There’s a big difference between a movie with black actors and a black film.”

20th Century Fox Film Corp. / courtesy Everett Collection

George Lucas, in today’s Variety, on the difference between last summer’s film about white women and their African American maids in Civil Rights-era Mississippi and his upcoming movie Red Tails, about African American World War II pilots.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Tuned In | August 31, 2011

The Blu-Ray Menace; or, Who Really Owns Star Wars?

By James Poniewozik
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You may recently have noticed a disturbance in the Force, as if billions of voices suddenly got royally pissed off and cried out in Internet discussion threads. The impetus: a report, later confirmed by the New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff among others, that George Lucas is once again fiddling with the original Star Wars trilogy [...]