From a glowing briefcase to the Red Brick Road, TIME looks back (and tries to explain) some favorite movie mysteries
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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.
The Lorax Aborts John Carter‘s Mission to Mars
Seuss slams Disney, as the $250 million space epic limps into second place
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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
Happy Star Wars Day: Revisiting a Galaxy Very Very Close
What if the world of Star Wars collided with ours? Photographer Cédric Delsaux explores the possibilities in his new book, Dark Lens.
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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 …
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May the Minifigures Be With You
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 Star Wars minifigures.
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Another Attack of Clones, and the Star Wars Generation Gap
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 Cartoon Network September 17.
As I wrote last year, as bad as the animated Clone …
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Programming Note
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 but two guest bloggers.
Steven James …
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Lostwatch Addendum: Who the Hell Is Anakin?
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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 …