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.

+Box Office Report | March 11, 2012

The Lorax Aborts John Carter's Mission to Mars

By Richard Corliss
Universal Pictures

Seuss slams Disney, as the $250 million space epic limps into second place

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

+Photos Books | May 24, 2012

Happy Star Wars Day: Revisiting a Galaxy Very Very Close

By Yumi Goto
© Cedric Delsaux, Dark Lens, courtesy the artist

What if the world of Star Wars collided with ours? TIME looks at the possibilities in Cédric Delsaux’s book, Dark Lens. May the 4th be with you.

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 [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 11, 2011

May the Minifigures Be With You

By James Poniewozik

I’ve been busy today closing a feature on Breaking Bad (which will be in TIME Friday) and writing a review of George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons (which will post here tomorrow morning). So I have been a bad, bad blogger today. You deserve better than that, so here are some pictures of Lego [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 11, 2010

Another Attack of Clones, and the Star Wars Generation Gap

By James Poniewozik

Some posts at Tuned In I do to serve a wide audience. Some I do to serve niche fan groups. And some I do simply so that the Tuned In Jrs. will have a reason to read their Dad’s blog. This is one of them: season 3 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns to [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | June 26, 2010

Programming Note

By James Poniewozik

I’m going to be away for the next week, exploring the exotic and humid climes of southeastern Michigan. (I probably won’t be able to keep myself off Twitter, so as always you can find me there.) So I regret to inform you that Tuned In will be temporarily improving in my absence, with not one [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+April 21, 2010

Lostwatch Addendum: Who the Hell Is Anakin?

By James Poniewozik

John Cloud has already done an excellent job recapping last night’s Lost, “The Last Recruit,” and I don’t have much to add on the overall architecture of this moving-pieces-into-place episode. But because this is Lost, there are four episodes left, and I can’t shut myself up,  I can’t resist chiming in with a few (semi-spoilery) [...]