‘Risk: Star Wars Edition’ Brings Balance to the Tabletop
‘Risk: Star Wars Edition’ might not bring ‘Risk’-level strategy, but it does bring a huge amount of ‘Star Wars’ goodness to the table in a light-strategy package.
Continue Reading
Tag: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Late to the Party — Star Wars Episodes IV-III
The author shares his takeaway after watching Star Wars: Episodes IV – III in chronological order of release for the first time.
Continue Reading
This 5-Year-Old Girl Has Strong Opinions On the Slave Leia Outfit
No matter how hard her Dad may try, there is no breaking this girls adoration for Princess Leia’s slave costume from Return of the Jedi.
Continue Reading
A Shot-by-Shot Dissection of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
It’s here! Yesterday, the world caught its first glimpse of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a 90-second teaser that played into the greatest force of all: nostalgia. Every Star Wars fan, young and old, casual and obsessive, now has about 390 long, hard days to wait, plan and speculate on their return to that galaxy far, far away. There’s no time to waste, so let’s start the speculating now with a shot-by-shot deconstruction of the teaser.
Continue Reading
Nine Peeks at the Joy within The Making of Return of the Jedi
From different versions of the opening crawl to storytelling conversations between George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan to the visions of concept artists and the unparalleled practical effects work of Industrial Light & Magic, J. W. Rinzler’s The Making of Return of the Jedi will delight Star Wars fans.
Continue Reading
What You Take With You: Return of the Jedi – Opening Night ’83 (Part 2)
I don’t remember the tense anticipation brought on by the 20th Century Fox fanfare or the chills on the back of my neck at the blast of sound when the Star Wars logo slammed onto the screen. What I really remember is a feeling. I’ve never seen a movie in an atmosphere like that again. Packed houses on opening nights with hardcore fans, sure, but never again like this one. We were there.
Continue Reading
What You Take With You: Return of the Jedi – Opening Night ’83
My movie-going experiences peaked when I was twelve years old. Notice I’m not saying that when my mom and dad and brothers and my friend Mike and I went to Return of the Jedi on opening night that I saw the best movie ever.
I’m just saying that as an overall movie-going experience, seeing Jedi on May 25, 1983 makes an awfully damn convincing case for my top spot.
Another Fan Trilogy is Complete – Return of the Jedi in Iconoscope
Star Wars fans have had a lot to talk about over the last few months, some of it good and some of it bad. We’ve seen the proper release of the crowd sourced Star Wars Uncut and the takedown of …
Continue ReadingDeleted Star Wars Scene: See Luke Become a Jedi!
If you read reports about Star Wars Celebration V, which just wrapped up yesterday in Orlando, you may have heard about a never-before-screened deleted scene from Return of the Jedi that was shown as part of Jon Stewart’s interview of …
Continue ReadingTop 10 Things That Messed With Our Heads When We Were Kids (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Many of us remember watching movies and feeling unease (and in many cases straight up terror) when we just didn’t “get it.” The recollection of that feeling occurred to me when my son, who fast forwards past the first forty-five …
Continue Reading