Spot the Gadgets in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if [...]

Timeline: The Star Wars Saga

We’re all familiar with the start of the Star Wars movies: A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away… But with all the spin-off novels, games and comics, the Star Wars saga actually starts a much longer time ago than you’d think. Like, twenty-five thousand years earlier. Oh, and it continues more than [...]

Changing Fate: What I Learned from Return of the Jedi

I’ve got to confess: I didn’t see A New Hope in theatres. And I can’t even remember when or where I first saw Empire. But I do remember seeing Return of the Jedi in a multiplex somewhere. It’s tough to recall how much I knew of the mythos at that point but once I saw [...]

“I never shot a scene like that,” says Mark Hamill

Like every other Star Wars nerd, I was giddy as could be when George Lucas announced that the Blu-ray boxset of all six films would include deleted scenes from the Lucasfilm archives. Luke Sykwalker himself presented the following to whet our appetites until the fall of next year. But the Geeks of Doom dug up [...]

Deleted ROTJ Scene Surfaces

Don’t expect this video to last too much longer on YouTube.