Flashbacks to Andor’s childhood seem unnecessarily added, as if someone thought an origin of an origin of an origin of Star Wars was a good idea.
Tag: Star Wars
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A trippy trip back in time
Death by Toys specializes in repurposed action figures, 80s nostalgia, and a bestselling empty box you have to see to believe.
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Skywalker rises above slippery story slopes
The script is sometimes wanting, but Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a fun conclusion to the movie saga.
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All Childish Things is what happens when Star Wars meets Ocean’s 11
Joe Zettelmaier’s heist comedy unfolds with the grace of a well-maintained droid.
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Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen
Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
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MINI-REVIEW: Solo: A Star Wars Story
After Rogue One (2016), this is the second installment in Disney’s “Star Wars Anthology” franchise filling in the nooks and crannies of George Lucas’s original.
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May the fourth be with you, even if the Reader’s critics rarely become one with the force
The Star Wars films amused few of our film critics.
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By villainizing nerdy fanboys, Black Mirror’s Star Trek parody goes where no show has gone before
“USS Callister,” the best episode of Black Mirror‘s fourth season, is a Star Trek parody that serves as a parable about the dangers of the angry online fanboy.
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Luke Skywalker still has lessons to learn in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Writer-director Rian Johnson honors the franchise’s long history of pedagogy.
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The One-Minute Play Festival, a May the 4th Star Wars party, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Female Chicago Comics Panel, Chiang Mai Thai New Year Celebration, and more happenings from May 1-4.
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Remembering Carrie Fisher’s Blues Brothers time in Chicago, and other news
Also, a billionaire actually asked Rahm to close Monroe Street in the Loop during his daughter’s wedding.
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Die Hard heckling, a holiday Nerdette, and more things to do in Chicago pre-Christmas week
A Very Ladylike Christmas, Logan Square Holiday Farmers Market, and more happenings from December 19-22
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Photography in the age of social media, Laughs Trump Hate, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Seinfeld Trivia Festivus, a special edition of the Slo ‘Mo dance party, and more happenings from December 12-15
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ICYMI: Best cosplay from this weekend’s Anime Central
A look at cosplay from this weekend’s ACEN convention, the midwest’s largest expo of anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture.
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Fans celebrated Star Wars Day with a faux lightsaber battle in the South Loop
Star Wars fans battled with lightsabers in a place much closer than a galaxy far, far, away—the South Loop.