While Star Wars fans will endlessly debate the value of The Rise of Skywalker and pick it apart for the next several decades, there is much good to discuss about […]
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One hour and twenty minutes into The Last Jedi, Rey stands over Luke, who lies prone on an ancient stone stairway overlooking the sea. The rain pours. The night is
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In the original Star Wars trilogy, the stormtroopers are portrayed with no individuality, and represent the banality of evil: the stifling sameness of blind obedience to an evil system. In
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Star Wars creator George Lucas began his legendary directing career first by getting behind the camera. Lucas graduated from Modesto Junior College in the early 1960s and then enrolled at
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Disclaimer: I am a Star Wars curmudgeon. I like to pretend the prequels don’t exist, that Star Wars is the title of Episode IV: A New Hope, and that Han
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St. Teresa of Avila famously wrote, “Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things will pass away God never changes; patience obtains all things, whoever has God lacks
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Among the numerous influences behind George Lucas’ Star Wars saga, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was a principal driving force in the early drafts of the 1977 film. In
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