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Spoiler-free review of Andor season one: It’s the best Star Wars project produced since Disney purchased Lucasfilm.  (In my mind the only two projects that come close are Rogue One, which Tony Gilroy — the show-runner of Andor — had a strong hand in shaping, and the

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Light & Magic is a spectacular six-episode documentary series on Disney+, tracing the origins and development of Industrial Light and Magic, surely one of the greatest special effects company of all time. I am a sucker for behind-the-scenes documentaries on the making of movies, n

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Star Wars: Visions is an animated anthology series in which each episode was created by a different Japanese animation studio.  The episodes utilize imagery from across the Star Wars universe, but the stories are non-canonical, meaning the Japanese animators and storytellers were fre

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Ewan McGregor’s performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of my favorite aspects of the Star Wars prequel films (films that I otherwise tmostly disliked).  But I loved Mr. McGregor’s depiction of a young Obi-Wan, particularly in Episode III, when Obi-Wan was at the height of

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I’m excited to see this first trailer for the long-in-the-works next Mission: Impossible film: That looks great. It’s fun to see Henry Czerny back as Kittridge! I was dubious of the idea of a Cassian Andor solo show — didn’t we see a fully satisfying and comple

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One of the high-points of the terrific second season of The Mandalorian, for me, was the triumphant return of Boba Fett.  For years (decades!), Star Wars fans have speculated that perhaps Boba Fett survived getting knocked into the Sarlacc Pitt back in Return of the Jedi.  It seeme

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