When the initial ‘Star Wars’ trilogy ended 30 years ago, its creator should have quit while he was ahead
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Star Wars: Episode VII Rumor Roundup: Will Harrison Ford Return?
Who will direct? Who will star? What does Buzz Lightyear have to do with anything?
Star Wars Fans React: The Best Tweets About Disney Deal for Lucasfilm
Lifelong fans are both celebrating and mourning the news of ‘Star Wars Episode 7’
Star Wars Speculation: With 3D Ewoks on the Horizon, How Long Until a Manipulated ‘New Hope’?
Some Star Wars fans have skipped right past the new announcement of back-to-back 3D re-releases of Star Wars Episodes II and III to speculate on how far behind the 3D releases of the original trilogy could be.
Given the …
Star Wars Turns 35: How TIME Covered the Film Phenomenon
On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie screens. TIME takes a fond look back at George Lucas’ little science-fantasy project.
Navy SEALs’ Act of Valor Takes Oscar Weekend
The Pentagon-approved action film locks down the No. 1 slot, as the Oscar-favorite silent film “The Artist” manages only a whisper
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10 Things We (Still) Kinda Hate About The Phantom Menace
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
Red Tails: So Square It Can Barely Fly
Against the great odds of pervasive bigotry, a group of black pilots from the Tuskegee training program flew in World War II, shooting down German planes, bombing trains and trucks and even taking out a destroyer. They sacrificed …
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The Blu-Ray Menace; or, Who Really Owns Star Wars?
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 …