Star Wars

This is it for the Skywalker Saga. Walt Disney Pictures Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker caps off a story that spans nine films over the last four decades. That's a lot of baggage to unload, and director J.J. Abrams attempts to pay off earlier elements whil…

TL;DR: Treat yourself with some of the coolest merch from Target's buy two, get one free deal on Star Wars products.  Merry Sithmas! Christmas may be over, but the holiday deals are still going strong, and baby Yoda keeps on ruling the world.  Target always…

Most Star Wars fans don't know Yoda for his absurdist musical numbers, but the folks at Bad Lip Reading want to change that.  Three years after "Seagulls," the truly bizarre lip dub about Yoda's harrowing experience with some birds, they've released "My Stic…

UNC-Charlotte student Riley Howell was hailed by police as a hero for tackling a gunman who opened fire in a classroom in April. Matthew Westmoreland/AP A man killed earlier this year when he helped stop a shooter at the University of North Carolina at Char…

The Rise of Skywalker might be here, but Star Wars isn't over over. There's still plenty of money for Disney to wring out of it. In case you hadn't heard (lol), Dec. 20 brings us the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga. That's the name we use now to refer…

There are few mainstream media representations of L.G.B.T. people in Singapore, where sex between men is punishable by up to two years in prison and there are no protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Anti-gay sentiment runs high in t…

With kids sprung from school, J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker flew to $29.2 million Monday, the sixth-best showing of all time and ahead of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. And so begins the most lucrative two weeks of the year at the box office, when…

Now that the Skywalker Saga is officially over, it's time for Star Wars fans to face an uncomfortable truth: Chewbacca will never get his due. Sure, he got a Yavin medal right at the end of The Rise of Skywalker. Even better, it came from Maz Kanata, the onl…

Lucasfilm Ltd. Two years ago, my former colleague Sarah Jeong laid out how Star Wars: Rogue One — and, indeed, much of the Star Wars mythology — is about internet freedom. A huge amount of the series involves people struggling to copy a sci-fi floppy disc or …

The moment Darth Vader looms over Luke Skywalker in the climax of The Empire Strikes Back and declares that he is Luke's father is one of the greatest twists in cinema history. Paternity reveals weren't a new concept when The Empire Strikes Back came out, but…