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The bad guys in Star Wars: The Force Awakens might be able to destroy multiple planets at once with their Starkiller Base but it’s far from efficient warfare.
Return of the Jedi saw Emperor Palpatine’s regime brought crashing down – but the hard peace-building work to save the galaxy from a relapse was clearly never done.
The manic light-and-sound show is more tribute than groundbreaking film.
It was by no means a sure thing that Star Wars’ innovative beginning endured until the modern day. Here’s the story of its various scrapes with the wrecking ball.
The droids in the Star Wars universe often play a key role in the movies. But how close are they to some of the real robots in our own universe?
Film sagas like Star Wars transcend the screen, connecting viewers to their pasts, to one another and to the hero within.
Rey, Leia and Captain Phasma prove this film is light years ahead of the gender equality curve.
No Star Wars movie would be complete without the Universe’s two favourite droids. But now the race is on to turn them into fact.
Four decades later, I find myself surveying 13 billion years of cosmic history and mapping events that really did happen a long time ago in galaxies far, far away.
Hollywood moves are always breaking box office records because the industry doesn’t adjust for inflation, which changes the picture considerably.
No matter where in the world you are, keep up with the adventures of D2R2 and Jabba the Forester.
Where next for one of the best-known soundtracks in history?
The Empire didn’t see X-wings firing proton torpedos into an exhaust port as a problem. Perhaps they’d have benefited from better systems analysis.
JJ Abrams made a terrible Star Trek film that perfectly prepared him to make a great Star Wars movie.
How to build a movie empire that will last for generations.
The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
It’s not easy – but we are moving in the right direction.
Cinema is evolving into a multi-sensory spectacular.
Amid the din of cries about a ‘ban’ and the prayer ‘causing offence’ the Lord’s prayer advert has got more media traction than it would had it been screened.
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