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Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Battle for Jabiim Is a Fascinating Parallel to Its Comic Inspiration
Contemporary Star Wars is far from unafraid of taking concepts that worked from the Expanded Universe and loosely slotting them into its own narratives. Last week’s penultimate episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi was no exception — but in returning to the planet Jabiim for a fateful clash between the Empire and the would-be rebels of the…
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Is Time Travel Really Possible or Just the Stuff of Sci-Fi Movies?
Spoiler alert: this article explains a key plot point, but we don’t give away anything you won’t see in trailers. Thanks to reader Florence, 7, for her questions. At the beginning of the new Disney Pixar film, Lightyear, Buzz Lightyear gets stranded on a dangerous faraway planet with his commanding officer and crew. Their only…
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Game of Thrones Wants a Comeback — Does It Have What It Takes?
To say that Game of Thrones has had the stink of its controversial ending hovering over it for three years would be an understatement, but HBO thinks that enough time has passed to attempt a larger franchise.
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Mad God’s Gorgeous, Gruesome World Pushes the Limits of Animation and Sanity
Based on the trailer and its near-mythical status as a project Oscar-winning animator and special effects supervisor Phil Tippett (Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back) has been working on for three decades, you might have an idea of what you’re in for while watching Mad God. Scratch…