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Image: Lucasfilm Given that you’re reading this online, chances are you’ve also read about The Last Jedi being divisive. Many, many fans are angry at the film for trying to do something new with their beloved Star Wars franchise. Some feel powerless. Others take their gripes to the petition website Change.org. While we at io9…
Photo: Disney Star Wars: The Last Jedi B+ Star Wars: The Last Jedi B+ B+ Star Wars: The Last Jedi Cast Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Kelly Marie Tran, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro Availbility Theaters everywhere December 15 Early into The Last Jedi,…
As of writing this there’s currently an almost 40% disparity between the critics and audience’s response to the latest Star Wars on Rotten Tomatoes. For all of the high moments, satisfying pay-offs, and generally cool Star Wars stuff, a movie that runs two hours and 33 minutes is bound to fall flat in some areas….
Photo: Disney This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson’s stylized contribution to the Star Wars mythos, returns to the series’ root influences—samurai films, pulp serials, 1940s wartime dramas—to create the most idiosyncratic Star Wars film to date. The humor is wacky and Spaceballs-and-Looney-Tunes-ish, the staging stark…
The Force Awakens was fun on its own merits, and thrilling in a nostalgic sort of way, and the fresh Star Wars youths were charming and compelling where they were supposed to be (Rey and Finn), and darkly charismatic where they were supposed to be (Kylo Ren), and absurdly good-looking and sexy where they were…
“This is not going to go the way you think.” – Luke Skywalker With Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams sought to prop up and revitalize the most popular film franchise in movie history, to preserve its qualities in amber for a new generation. The Force Awakens was very concerned about what you,…
Note: Spoilers for The Last Jedi (YES ALL THE SPOILERS) I came out of watching The Last Jedi, and was like, “Well, that was good, but I’m not blown away.” It had a lot of threads; it felt like three movies in one, and cramming all that story into one movie made it feel a…
(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) While doing the promotional rounds for her latest film, Wonder Wheel, Kate Winslet’s been giving the public lessons on separating art from the artist. In a September interview with The New York Times, Winslet defended her choice to work with Allen, who’s been accused by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of…
There was a moment in Rogue One—a flawed, complicated moment, in a film which many people didn’t like—that fundamentally changed what the Star Wars saga is about. In the final sequence, instead of focusing on individuals, the camera follows the disc with the Death Star plans pass hand-to-hand as Darth Vader chases it down. Someone…
Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy was already the world’s most terribly timed movie. It’s a would-be provocative comedy about how a man’s Woody Allen–esque hero starts pursuing his 17-year-old daughter — and is, at the time of writing, still scheduled to open right in the middle of our current maelstrom of stories about decades…