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There’s a lot riding on this re-release of George Lucas’s Star Wars films (now with added 3D) as this falls before the re-unleashing of James Cameron’s Titanic later in the year and all eyes will be as much on the quality of the post-conversion process as the film itself. There’s no doubt that The Phantom [...]
Star Wars has always belonged to the fans, and it makes sense that in a time when Yoda is being pimped out to sell mobile networks and Darth Vader has been demoted to training computer store employees how to do their job the fans have a chance to retaliate, to strike back as it were. [...]
Reviewing this box set when it is out in stores and in all probability snapped up by eager Star Wars fans seems a little unnecessary. The promise of a shiny high def transfer and the long awaited deleted scenes from the Original Trilogy conspire to tempt you to part with your cash once more, to [...]
As part of HeyUGuys’ Star Wars celebrations I’d like to present you all with what I believe is a HUG first … a spot of poetry! But first, some context … It was back in the halcyon days of Summer 2008 when I wrote the following poem as a result of an afternoon spent tidying [...]
This may be an exercise in futility, or at least an attempt to distill down a real wealth of material into a fairly artificial concept, however in honour of the Star Wars franchise finally making its way onto Blu-ray, here are my considered nominations for the best set pieces, one per film, of the whole [...]
A long time ago, in a living room far, far away (well, Elgin), I remember sitting down to watch Star Wars for the very first time. Now, twenty-odd years, a full franchise and hundreds of pounds worth of merchandise later, I am sitting down to watch it again in anticipation of the saga’s encroaching release [...]
LucasFilm has announced that the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray boxset will be released on September 12th around the world and September 16th in the US. The boxset will feature all six films – A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones [...]
One of the new voices in horror, Ti West, is swapping genres for his next production. The Playlist has been chatting to the director during SXSW (where his latest feature, The Innkeepers, received its world premiere) and he revealed that his third film will be a sci-fi thriller called The Side Effects. He’s sparse on [...]
On July 8th 2009 a very ambitious project was launched; entitled Star Wars Uncut the project attempted to re-create Star Wars: A New Hope with members of the public creating their own versions of all the scenes. There has been an announcement on the site’s blog by the founder, Casey Pugh, that the film is finished and will [...]
