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Gen V: Everything We Know About The Boys Spin-Off

Even kids with extraordinary abilities need a place to hone their skills. Young wizards mastered their wands and learn to spell at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. X-Men trained at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. A new generation of Jedis went to Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy. If you’re a potential superhero or “supe” […]

How Some Dirty Dishes Inspired The Look Of Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon

She’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. She can outrun Imperial starships. She’s fast. She is the Millennium Falcon, and while she may not look like much, she’s got it where it counts. As for why she looks like, per Luke Skywalker, “a piece of junk,” that’s a surprisingly […]

Mark Hamill Was A Massive What We Do In The Shadows Fan Before His Cameo

Mark Hamill may be known primarily for playing Luke Skywalker, but he’s had a vast, sprawling, eclectic career on both the big and small screen. One of his more recent roles was Jim the Vampire on “What We Do in the Shadows.” Hamill-as-Jim appeared in one of the best episodes of the show — “On […]

In This Movie, the Major Plot Hole Actually Works

Star Wars fans are well aware that sometimes learning the answers to lingering questions about the franchise isn’t always satisfying, and that some questions are best left as mysteries. No one really needed to know who built C-3Po, how Han Solo got his famous dice, or that the force was really just part of a […]

Just as we’ve fallen in love with digi-Luke, is Mark Hamill really retiring from Star Wars?

Now we’ve seen de-aged, youngish, CGI-assisted Luke, surely this is the opportunity for the moisture farmer turned Jedi Master to return to the centre of the galaxy far, far awayA fond farewell, then, to all that. The swishy lightsabers; the bullseyeing of womp rats and conveniently located Death Star kill buttons; the parental epiphany-fuelled screams […]

This ’90s John Carpenter Horror Gave Us One of Mark Hamill’s Best Roles

While he became a household name thanks to his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise and his sensational role as the definitive version of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, Mark Hamill might still have held the record as the world’s most valuable geek. Between voicing animated characters for various DC […]

Mark Hamill Says Michael Keaton’s Subversive ‘Batman’ Casting Inspired Him to Voice the Joker

Mark Hamill is reflecting on how Michael Keaton tore down typecasting for the “Batman” superhero films.Hamill, who voiced The Joker in the critically acclaimed TV show “Batman: The Animated Series,” reflected on Keaton’s casting in Tim Burton’s live-action 1989 “Batman” movie during a Wired video interview (below).“I had a confidence that really helped me, because […]

Cruella’s Mom Twist Feels Like a Response to The Last Jedi

We had all become so accustomed to the hero’s journey story that there was a collective freakout in 2017 when Rian Johnson decided to upend it with Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars is one of the great American stories and a major part of its popularity rests on the revelation that Luke Skywalker […]