Star Wars

HEY-HEEEEYYYYY. All aboard the Babu Frik hype train.  People have officially fallen in love with the tiny alien droidsmith in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and we can't blame them. In fact, there's even some debate over whether little Babu's adorableness…

Mark Hamill returns in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" as a Force ghost. In a pivotal moment, he catches his lightsaber after Rey tosses it into a fire.   "A Jedi's weapon deserves more respect," Skywalker tells her. The line not only reads as a direct d…

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…