How will we know when Hollywood’s appetite for proven intellectual property has peaked? Perhaps it’s happened already. Was it when Showtime started developing four new projects based on Billions, including two titled Millions and Trillions? […]
The streaming landscape is vast and hard to keep track of. TV shows pop up (and get canceled) seemingly overnight, and even if you’re in a place where you’re looking for a new show to […]
Disney Here’s what I think about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, on the whole: while it’s certainly flawed, its third act (about the last hour, hour-and-fifteen-minutes) is Star Wars at its absolute peak, at least in […]
Disney/Lucasfilm What Disney+ has pulled off with Andor — a legitimately deep sociopolitical espionage thriller — is nothing short of remarkable. Having long considered Rogue One to be my favorite Star Wars entry of all time, its prequel Andor has undoubtedly expanded the story […]
It sneaks up on you, how well you know Ferrix by the end of Andor’s first season. At first it’s deceptively like Tatooine: a miserable place that’s meant to be left behind by its protagonist, […]
For Tony Gilroy, revolution is always on the mind. In his latest project, Andor, the critically acclaimed writer of movies like the Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton has taken his knack for turning bureaucratic thrillers […]
In your latest film, Mr Malcolm’s List, you are cast with no regard to skin colour or race, as was your Slumdog ex, Dev Patel, in The Personal History of David Copperfield. Colour-blind casting is […]
The tenth episode of Andor is the best episode yet of the best Star Wars show. One of the show’s more action-packed episodes, it pays off tiny moments of setup from previous episodes and is […]
Andor is a “grounded, gritty” reimagining done to actual perfection. Each week, creator Tony Gilroy and his collaborators have drilled down through the surface-level iconography of Star Wars — past the Skywalker saga and Boba […]
When production designer Luke Hull was first approached about working on Andor, he felt some trepidation. He was just coming off HBO’s Chernobyl series and was worried that working within the well-established Star Wars universe […]
When production designer Luke Hull was first approached about working on Andor, he felt some trepidation. He was just coming off HBO’s Chernobyl series and was worried that working within the well-established Star Wars universe […]
The upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte continues to unfold, as the Star Wars spinoff has added Carrie-Anne Moss, best known as Trinity in The Matrix franchise. Other newly-revealed cast members include Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, and Jodie Turner-Smith. This latest score of actors […]
Some tough language from the Russo brothers this week, who have accused Warner Brothers of “murder” over the recent canning of Batgirl. Speaking to Variety, the Avengers: Endgame directors did not mince their words. “It’s […]
Some tough language from the Russo brothers this week, who have accused Warner Brothers of “murder” over the recent canning of Batgirl. Speaking to Variety, the Avengers: Endgame directors did not mince their words. “It’s […]
Minnesota-based Fantasy Flight Games has done quite a lot with card games over the years, including its signature line of Living Card Games. But even its most recent hit, Marvel Champions, one of the 22 […]
To speak of Latino culture in the United States is often to tell a story of absence, of underrepresentation and misrepresentation, of everything that is missing rather than all that exists. This will not be […]
Andor, Disney Plus’ excellent Rogue One prequel series, brought back two more characters from Gareth Edwards’ 2016 movie in episode 8, “Narkina 5.” Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor has been here all along, of course (as […]
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will direct an upcoming Star Wars franchise entry co-penned by Lost and The Leftovers co-creator Damon Lindelof, per a new report. Sunday evening, Deadline let loose an exclusive revealing that the largely […]
Disney Plus’ Andor has stubbornly refused to directly nod to much of the Star Wars universe or fluff the audience with Easter eggs. Sure, there’s TIE fighters and the Empire; Mon Mothma is there, seeding […]
It’s not hard to take a new Star Wars show with a bit of apprehension. Like Marvel movies and shows, they’re announced at press conferences as a collection of titles and dates, maybe with a […]