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Zack Snyder Insults People Who Don’t Like His Movies

AlexGherzo | Apr 18, 2024 | 2

Zack Snyder said some more weird stuff to defend his awful movies. He appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to talk about Rebel Moon and his other films, and he made a strange argument against bashing his movies: if you don’t like them, you’re asking for focus group-approved movies. You c...

Star Wars Outlaws Trailer Smuggles Some Cinematics

AlexGherzo | Apr 9, 2024 | 0

A couple of days after the Star Wars Outlaws community manager was outed as an annoying woke activist who doesn’t particularly care for white people, especially men, Ubisoft released a trailer for the upcoming video game. Is this an attempt to change the narrative? Perhaps. At any rate, this is a ...

Star Wars 9-Movie Marathon Coming to Theaters

virginiakublawi | Mar 22, 2024 | 0

Remember when we reported about The Phantom Menace returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary? Well, now you can watch all nine Star Wars films in the Skywalker Saga in a row. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reveals that the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission in San Francisco will host a 2...

Star Wars Outlaws Trailer Infiltrates the Syndicates

virginiakublawi | Jun 12, 2023 | 1

Lucasfilm Games and Ubisoft released the first trailer for Star Wars: Outlaws yesterday. The first-ever open-world Star Wars game follows a scoundrel named Kay Vess and her associate Nyx as they navigate the intergalactic criminal underworld, pulling jobs for crime syndicates while plotting a big he...

IGN Celebrates Landmark Anniversaries with Star Wars Watch From Home

brettstevens | May 27, 2020 | 0

The anniversary of a Star Wars is always a momentous occasion for this fandom. This year, we had two big days in the same week: the fifteenth anniversary of Revenge of the Sith and the 40th anniversary of what many fans consider to be the greatest Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back. To commemor...

The Women of Star Wars: Princess Leia

virginiakublawi | Jan 12, 2020 | 0

Contrary to what Disney might have you believe, they didn’t create the concept of female Star Wars characters, or even female leads in the franchise. Of course, Princess Leia is one of the franchise’s most iconic characters and a beloved cinematic heroine in general. But there were others after ...