The First Order: Star Wars’ terror organisation

Many Star Wars fans view the Sequel Trilogy’s First Order simply as a Galactic Empire 2.0. It is however a very different beast. And that difference may have implications for how Episode IX is going to wrap up the Skywalker Saga.

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3 Soundtracks of Genocide …

The 8 Star Wars Episode films so far have contained three depictions of genocide; Star Wars touches upon many uncomfortable themes … and this surely is one of them. But it also always seeks to express in music what sometimes pictures and dialogue cannot. What do these soundtracks tell us of such horrors?

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Review: The Score of The Last Jedi

Of course with a new Star Wars movie comes a new score. So what does The Last Jedi have in store for us? We’ll have a listen using the fact that we’ve seen the film. So this review will contain spoilers regarding the film itself in a spoiler-part that is clearly indicated!

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Awesome Tribute Videos #5: The Early Sequel Years

In our Awesome Tribute Videos series we now turn to the early Sequel years that are coming to a close as we write. When The Last Jedi completes its run in cinema’s across the world we will enter the ‘later Sequel Years’. So what awesome tributes did we see?

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Echoes of The Last Jedi

The trailer of The Last Jedi has been released less than 48 hours ago and is widely discussed. More like any trailer before however, almost every shot echoes previous films. We’ll take you through some and Spoiler-Speculate what they might say about the story. Continue reading “Echoes of The Last Jedi”