Star Wars Andor looks very good As previously mentioned, Star Wars Celebration is going on right now, and the biggest reveal of the first day was undoubtedly the teaser for Andor, a Rogue One prequel series centered on Diego Luna’s Rebel spy character, Cassian Andor. I am super f-cking burnt out on Star Wars, but By Sarah • May 27, 2022 10:44 am
Star Wars Intro for May 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, Star Wars Celebration kicked off yesterday and will run through the weekend. Feels kinda weird right now, with everything going on, but then it occurred to me that if they had cancelled Celebration and moved it to some other time, there would probably just be a new tragedy By Sarah • May 27, 2022 09:26 am
Star Wars Intro for May 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, The first two episodes of Obi-Wan premiere next week, and to mark the occasion, Star Wars covers Vanity Fair this month. I think I’ve reached a point with Star Wars where I like these Annie Liebovitz photoshoots more than I like the actual Star Wars stuff. I’ By Sarah • May 18, 2022 09:31 am
TV Updates The Star Wars Style Show Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, and Hayden Christensen are currently on the Obi-Wan Kenobi press tour – and bringing strong style game. But we’ll come back to that in a minute. Right now let’s talk, in the most non-expert way possible, about Star Wars. As Sarah always says, the biggest By Lainey • May 13, 2022 10:32 am
TV Updates Ewan and Hayden Reunited Even though I was super into Star Wars as a kid, I wouldn’t say that I’m hardcore into it now. But it is definitely interesting to me seeing Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen together again. It’s been a while and now they’re promoting the upcoming Obi-Wan By Lainey • May 11, 2022 02:20 pm
Star Wars Ewan McGregor shoots his second shot A teaser trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi, the upcoming Disney+ series that gives Ewan McGregor a shot at redemption, dropped yesterday. It looks…pretty good. Honestly, I’d be more into it if The Book of Boba Fett wasn’t a goddamn mess, and if the whole vibe of the new By Sarah • Mar 10, 2022 02:04 pm
Equality Issues Ewan McGregor avoids the issue Ewan McGregor covers The Hollywood Reporter to promote his upcoming television projects, Obi-Wan and Halston. Of course, you have to talk about Obi-wan, as McGregor prepares to reprise the role over 20 years after his debut in The Phantom Menace. I’m on board! I was only ever interested in By Sarah • Apr 29, 2021 09:50 am
Star Wars The Return of Toxic Fandom and #IStandWithKrystina Over the weekend you may have noticed a hashtag trending, #IStandWithKrystina, and wondered, “Is this some Star Wars sh-t?” The answer is yes, it is some Star Wars sh-t as the most infamous toxic fandom in the land reared its ugly head once again, this time coming for actor, table-top By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 10:26 am
TV Updates The Jedi arrives on The Mandalorian One of the big expectations for The Mandalorian season two was the arrival of Ahsoka Tano, a popular character from the animated series The Clone Wars. Well, that event transpired on Friday in the latest episode of The Mandalorian, “The Jedi”, as Ahsoka Tano shows up, dual white lightsabers in By Sarah • Nov 30, 2020 11:39 am
TV Updates The Mandalorian returns The Mandalorian returned on Friday, bringing us back to the world of Din Djarin and Baby Yoda (who remains almost unbearably cute). The first season was a simple delight, and while I continue to have reservations about this show going too deep into Star Wars lore—which it doesn’t By Sarah • Nov 02, 2020 10:52 am
TV Updates Can Baby Yoda save 2020? 2020, a year so awful it is officially sponsored by garbage, continues being just the worst, but wait, what’s that? There, in the distance! Is it, could it be…Baby Yoda? Yes, it is! Baby Yoda has returned to redeem this terrible f-cking year! The Mandalorian season two trailer By Sarah • Sep 16, 2020 10:14 am
Top Reads John Boyega GQ John Boyega covers the October issue of British GQ this month, talking about his impassioned speech at a London Black Lives Matter rally earlier this summer and his experience with Star Wars, now that he’s free and clear of the franchise and has had some time to reflect. Of By Sarah • Sep 02, 2020 01:37 pm
Equality Issues Intro for June 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, John Boyega joined protestors in London yesterday in support of Black Lives Matter, delivering an impassioned, emotional speech denouncing anti-Black racism, calling for justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and so many more, and praising the contributions of Black women. He also made it By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The failed legacy of The Rise of Skywalker SPOILERS With Star War: The Rise of Skywalker hitting Disney+, and since it’s May the 4th week, it is time now to revisit The Rise of Skywalker, a movie that is not even five months old and already aging poorly. At first watch, TROS is an uneven movie that By Sarah • May 07, 2020 03:14 pm
Star Wars Taika’s inevitable Star War After winning his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi shot down reports that he was in talks with Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars movie. Well guess what? Taika Waititi is now making a Star Wars movie. There is zero information about this film except that he will co-write it By Sarah • May 05, 2020 10:03 am
SD Recommendations Which Star Wars sequel trilogy characters would thrive (or not) in quarantine? Last week, we examined the self-quarantine fates of Succession’s Roy family. This week, we continue our exploration into how fictional characters are handling self-distancing—which probably says something about how I’m handling it—by looking at the characters of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. How do people who By Sarah • Apr 01, 2020 11:31 am
