R2-D2 Actor Kenny Baker Dies at 81
Kenny Baker played the lovable droid R2-D2 in the “Star Wars” films, achieving cult status and fans’ adulation without showing his face or speaking any lines.

Kenny Baker played the lovable droid R2-D2 in the “Star Wars” films, achieving cult status and fans’ adulation without showing his face or speaking any lines.

Disney/Lucasfilm dropped the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story during the Olympics last night, and the short clip features the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it return of one of cinema’s most beloved bad guys for the first time in more than decade.

Michelle Obama got a boost from Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, who produced an introductory video ahead of the First Lady’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.

Under the hashtag #WebOfDenial, they are wasting hours of Senate floor time warning America that she is in the grip of a terrible new threat in which evil denialists (TM) funded – natch – by the even more evil Koch Brothers have been conspiring to block action on “climate change” by disseminating lies through right-wing think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Executives at Disney have reportedly ordered four weeks of re-shoots on the upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One, with an anonymous source close to the situation claiming the studio is not satisfied with director Gareth Edwards’ first cut of the film.

Jake Lloyd, the actor most known for his role as young Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 blockbuster Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, suffers from schizophrenia, TMZ revealed Monday.

The Internet was ablaze Thursday morning as the first teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered on Good Morning America. The Star Wars spinoff centers on a a group of Rebel spies on a mission

The Internet was ablaze Thursday morning as the first teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered on Good Morning America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg The Star Wars spinoff movie centers on a a group of Rebel spies on

Disney insisted on a female lightsaber wielding character in “The Force Awakens,” according to a spokesperson, as part of an effort to add more female characters to the Star Wars universe.

On March 20, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety tweeted praise for Star Wars’ Mark Hamill over his recent comments in support of gun control.

Star Wars star Mark Hamill says his iconic character Luke Skywalker could be gay — if you want him to be.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential war chest boasted a January haul of $130.4 million, thanks in part to A-list Hollywood luminaries like Mark Hamill, Goldie Hawn, Teri Hatcher, Alfre Woodard, and Chevy Chase, according to the latest FEC data calculated by Bloomberg.

LONDON (AP) — British health authorities announced Thursday they have issued criminal charges against the producers of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” over an on-set accident in which Harrison Ford broke his leg. The actor was struck by a hydraulic

On this week’s airing of “Saturday Night Live,” host Adam Driver, star of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” reclaimed his role as villain Kylo Ren as the boss on a mock “Undercover Boss.” Driver’s Ren went undercover as radar technician “Matt” on

President Obama confessed that he still hadn’t seen the new Star Wars movie – The Force Awakens.

What Empire? What Empire is striking back? Answer: It’s the Empire of Beltway Anti-Medical Drug Naderites and bureaucrats—those who have piled high the red tape and the rent-seeking costs, thereby diminishing innovation and pushing down annual approvals of new drugs to levels below those seen in the mid-1990s.

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.

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

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

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump posted a new video ad on Instagram captioned, “We need a real President!”

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.”

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”

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
