From one generation to the next, here are the early stories of Han Solo and Princess Leia’s children learning to use the Force at Master Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Academy on Yavin 4. More for younger readers, but also a good background for the characters and events in the current “Legacy of the Force” line of books.
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There are hundreds of reference books to the Star Wars Universe, the making of the films, the art, the characters, the vehicles, the robots, the fandom, and so much more. We don’t have the time or the space to give you all of them. Instead here’s a half-dozen or so of the best examinations of Star Wars from different angles and perspectives.
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Who was Han Solo before he was dragged into a rebellion against the Galactic Empire? How did he win the Millennium Falcon? What happened with Jabba the Hutt? How did he end up in that bar on Tatooine? These questions, and much more, are answered in these two series of books that focus on Han Solo’s past as a smuggler, and scoundrel.
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Great idea, horrible execution. That’s Next in a nutshell. To start off with the film has much working against it. First off, it’s based on the Philip K. Dick short story “The Golden Man,” and we all know that Hollywood has had mixed success translating his work on screen.
Add to that a floundering Nicholas Cage (anyone remember Ghost Rider?) and the curse of Jessica Biel (see Blade Trinity, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Illusionist, Summer Catch, Elizabethtown, Rules of Attraction, and Stealth) and you have all manner of disasters just waiting to occur.
The film centers around lackluster magician Cris Johnson (Cage), working under the name Frank Cadillac – we don’t care why, but the film feels a need to explain the name, which is about the only thing it seems to give a straight explanation.
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“Finish it.”
“But I don’t know how it ends.”
The Fountain is hard to understand, difficult to discuss, and almost impossible to explain, but I’ll do my best to review the latest from writer/director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream). In a year almost devoid of science fiction, here late in the year we get something dazzling.
The film takes place in three time periods. Two of the time periods are fictional, the Aztec jungles in 1500 involving a Conquistador (Hugh Jackman) and his search for the Tree of Life, and the floating space bubble in 2500 involving a bald monk (Jackman) nursing a dying tree as it floats into a dying star surrounded by a nebula.
The third of the story is in the present, or near future, as a doctor (Jackman) experiments on apes in a desperate obsession to save the life of his wife Izzi (Rachel Weisz) who is slowly dying from a brain tumor. Though the two other tales fit together more easily, it is this tale which is the heart and soul of the film.
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