Star Wars

In case George Lucas ever reads this, I just want to say that not everybody has turned their back on you, George. I actually loved the prequels. All of them. I've noticed you've seemed a little grouchy and put-out the past decade and a half. I totally get it. You didn't have to make any more Star Wars movies after the original trilogy (or Orig Trig as I like to call it). But you did. You did it for the fans. And they repaid your generosity by crapping all over your life's work. I think that sucks.

If you can't get into a theatre to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens this weekend, maybe you'd enjoy seeing the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.

Whether it’s Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead or The Hunger Games, you’ve surely seen one of the Bad Lip Reading videos on YouTube. They take a movie or TV show (or footage from football games) and re-record the dialogue with hilarious results. Today they’ve finally set their sights on the original Star Wars trilogy and they’ve brought along some famous friends for the ride.

Google "Star Wars Fan Theories" and you will find an endless supply of reddits, sub-reddits and Buzzfeed rip-offs of reddits. I'm not saying no one in the entire Star Wars fandom has ever thought anything similar to what I'm about to tell you. But, to my knowledge, these are all original ideas and not Buzzfed from other people.

When you’re out promoting a movie, you’re often asked to do a lot of things, most of them pretty silly. With the amount of press the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was being asked to do, there were asked to do a lot of silly things, none perhaps as silly as going on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and singing a medley of Star Wars music a cappella. But the entire cast — including Harrison Ford! — actually commits, and it actually turns out to pretty fun.

The original Star Wars was driven by nostalgia for pulp magazines, Saturday-morning serials, and a simpler era with clear-cut heroes and villains. The new Star Wars is driven by nostalgia for the original Star Wars, and a simpler era when that title evoked words like “adventure” and “excitement,” and not words like “the taxation of trade routes,” and “Jar Jar Binks.” The characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens are all searching for something of great importance to the galaxy far, far away. I won’t reveal what this MacGuffin is, but I will tell you what it represents: that old Star Wars magic. Can director J.J. Abrams and the rest of the saga’s new creators find it?

Remember the late night phone sex lines in the 90s? Playboy posted a blast from the past with this Star Wars rendition feat. Jean Underwood.

December is here and we all know what special day is later this month, don't we? Yes, on the 17th Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters! Here's some Star Wars Christmas light displays to get you pumped for the season.

George Lucas recently commented about why he walked away from Star Wars and it’s all your fault. In a new video interview for Vanity Fair, the Star Wars creator voiced some of his frustrations with the past of the franchise and his hopes for the future, yielding some uncharacteristically candid soundbites.

(Update: November 5, 2015) According to Daniel's wife's Facebook page, Daniel got to see "Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens," so that mean #FORCEFORDANIEL was a success! // To all our wonderful supporters, friends, family and awesome strangers: Daniels final dream was just granted...