
After being cast by George Lucas to play Anakin Skywalker in two Star Wars prequels early in his career, actor Hayden Christensen appeared in only a handful of other films before mostly walking away from the industry.
by Kipp Jones2 Jan 2016, 4:09 PM PST0

With controversy over the Slave Leia costume heating up to the point where even Carrie Fisher felt obliged to weigh in, sex in nerd culture is once more getting smeared by the media. Indeed, one could argue that the Slave
by Mytheos Holt31 Dec 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

As is usually the case, what is bad news for Hollywood is almost always good news for America and Americans. Hollywood enjoyed a record box office year in 2015, but the hows and whys of this are mostly bad news
by John Nolte30 Dec 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump posted a new video ad on Instagram captioned, “We need a real President!”
by Alex Swoyer29 Dec 2015, 6:50 PM PST0

The December 21 reusable recovery of a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has improved the economics of commercial activity in space, but it has fundamentally changed the military balance of power and, perhaps inadvertently, launched the era of space militarization.
by Chriss W. Street25 Dec 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Science fiction has considered the question of artificial intelligence since the very beginning — what is the subject of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel Frankenstein if not an artificial intelligence, made from organic parts instead of metal?
by John Hayward23 Dec 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

As a bastion of the dark side of the Force, Planned Parenthood co-opted Star Wars imagery in an attempt to capitalize on the outstanding popularity of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.23 Dec 2015, 4:42 AM PST0

A Montana man is charged with threatening to shoot a boy for sharing information about a subplot of the new “Star Wars” movie during an online conversation.
by Breitbart News22 Dec 2015, 12:57 PM PST0

The White House has caught Star Wars mania for a special screening of “The Force Awakens” for Gold Star families who have lost relatives to combat- or service-related injuries.
by Breitbart News19 Dec 2015, 10:51 PM PST0

“Star Wars” fans flooded cinemas around the world Thursday for the first showings of the breathlessly anticipated seventh installment of the space saga, and they floated out on nostalgia and positive reviews.
by Breitbart News17 Dec 2015, 10:53 PM PST0

When Senator Ted Cruz quoted from Star Wars during his filibuster against Obamacare in September of 2013, I had a vision of Cruz as a galactic rebel warrior who would one day lead America back from the progressive abyss.
by Joel Gilbert17 Dec 2015, 5:01 PM PST0

As the biggest fans of the movie “Star Wars” are dressing up to attend the opening night of “The Force Awakens,” some of the biggest movie theater chains are asking them to leave their toy blasters at home.
by Charlie Spiering17 Dec 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

Just as it’s obvious that if Han Solo and Chewbacca were U.S. citizens they’d be voting for Donald Trump, so it’s a no-brainer that in Britain they’d be rooting for UKIP. This is what I argued on BBC’s Daily Politics
by James Delingpole16 Dec 2015, 12:02 PM PST0

Quentin Tarantino joined Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show Wednesday morning for a good old-fashioned venting session, where the director complained that Disney muscled his film “The Hateful Eight” out of Los Angeles’ Cinerama Dome theater in order to screen the new “Star Wars” there instead.
by Daniel Nussbaum16 Dec 2015, 11:43 AM PST0

A strong contender for dumbest “Star Wars” story is MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry sobbing over the crypto-racist messages she distilled from the central character of the saga. “I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation,” she wailed. “Yeah, like, the part where he was totally a black guy whose name basically was James Earl Jones, who, and we were all, but while he was black, he was terrible and bad and awful and used to cut off white men’s hands, and didn’t, you know, actually claim his son. But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white.”
by John Hayward14 Dec 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

On December 10, seventh-grader Colton Southern was told his Star Wars shirt was banned and needed to be covered up because it contained a photo of a Stormtrooper’s “gun, or at least a picture of what in the movie is [a] weapon.”
by AWR Hawkins14 Dec 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

On Sunday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry and a panel discussed race and gender in the “Star Wars” movies in light of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” premiering this week. Harris-Perry ranted regarding “totally black guy” “Star Wars”
by Trent Baker13 Dec 2015, 9:21 PM PST0

The superfans that run Star Wars Action News, a podcast devoted to Star Wars toys and memorabilia collecting, fell afoul of their Lucasfilm idols by purchasing and posting to Facebook a picture of an action figure which shouldn’t have been released for sale yet.
by Michael Poole11 Dec 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

With Star Wars, liberal Hollywood got it all wrong. They get everything wrong, of course, but this movie franchise really takes the biscuit. They turned the heroes into villains, and the villains into shining beacons of virtue. With a new film on
by Milo Yiannopoulos11 Dec 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

Star Wars: The Force Awakens director-producer J.J. Abrams said that he could see Ava DuVernay in the director’s chair on a future installment of the franchise.
by Daniel Nussbaum9 Dec 2015, 8:23 PM PST0

George Lucas has seen “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and has given this thoughts on the latest entry in the series and the original theme of his saga.
by Breitbart News9 Dec 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

John Boyega, who is a rebellious Stormtrooper named Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, answered questions about his sex life, or lack there of, and the controversy surrounding his casting in the new blockbuster film.
by Jerome Hudson6 Dec 2015, 9:30 PM PST0

The United Kingdom’s largest cinema chains have refused to run a new ad commissioned by the Church of England promoting prayer ahead of screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens this winter.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Nov 2015, 7:02 PM PST0

Star Wars Battlefront is a game reminiscent of the era before multiplayer games became weighed down by extraneous features and superfluous content. While it lacks a lot of the gilding we’ve come to expect from competitive shooters, this focus on the core experience had paid off in spades.
by Nate Church22 Nov 2015, 9:16 AM PST0

The Death Star is stalking a Northern California home. 2,000 square feet of PVC pipe and 162 joiners were used to make the skeleton of the giant 23-foot, 400-pound homemade ornament at the Lafayette, California home of the Powell family.
by Michelle Moons18 Nov 2015, 10:46 AM PST0