Star Wars rumours. They seem to pop with the regularity of Darryn having silly ideas, and if you follow him on social media, you would know that Darryn has a whole lot of those. Unfortunately for most of these Star Wars rumours, they seem to be the silliest of ideas themselves, but one has just popped up that makes quite a …
Vader's Fist, the mighty 501st Legion, now has a South African outpost.
The term “nice guys finish last” is usually said in derision, but writer-director Rian Johnson may just be about to turn that sentiment on its head, as his next gig will have him taking over and finishing off a major franchise trilogy. The franchise? Why, just Star Wars, that’s all. According to breaking reports from Deadline on Friday night, Johnson is currently …
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, we knew absolutely nothing with any certainty about Lucasfilm/Disney’s plans for more Star Wars movies, other than there were going to be more Star Wars movies. But now we have JJ Abrams’ toiling away on Star Wars: Episode VII, with a fully revealed cast, not to mention leaked set pics popping up …
When the cast for Star Wars: Episode VII was finally announced last month, among all the ooh’s and aah’s were some stern criticisms with its lack of gender and racial diversity. In response, Disney/Lucasfilm did their best TV informercial presenter impersonation and gave us a loud “BUT WAIT! THERE”S MORE!”. And that “more” has just arrived in the form of recent Oscar …
The words “Star Wars” and “rumours” have been very frequent bedfellows ever since the super secretive JJ Abrams came on board to direct and eventually co-write Episode VII. Since then we’ve also heard lots grapevine and water cooler talk about the films that will be coming up after Abrams finally kicks of the new trilogy. The only thing we know for certain about …
I sense a disturbance in the Force! It was just yesterday that we finally learned the official fate of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, but it would appear that that news was just the precursor to last night’s big reveal. Seemingly oblivious to the fact it will be May the 4th aka Star Wars Day aka the perfect time to make any …
Over the last year I’ve written a lot about the Star Wars Expanded Universe – the collection of books, TV shows, games, comics, etc that elaborate on the story before, between and beyond the six feature films – and most of it was lamenting at the ever more clear fact that Lucasfilm would be axing the EU as non-canon and …
City life is a game of optimality. In the small studio apartments of Vancouver …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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