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Diego Luna looks pensively off into the distance in a scene from Andor.

What Are We Talking About When We’re Talking About Star Wars?

By Natasha Ochshorn • June 10th, 2025

The depiction of fascism in Andor, – its annihilating possibilities, its pervasiveness, its seductions towards complicity – feel extrapolated from the present moment, terrifyingly. Its rebellion feels hopefully so.

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The Most Diverse Fascists You’ll Ever Meet

By Elijah Beahm • September 3rd, 2024

Let’s have more women spaceprison guards, too, while we’re at it.

Screenshot and title for STAR WARS Jedi Survivor, with a stunning sunset backdropped behind leather daddy Cal Kestis with perfect early aughts stubble and a lightsaber in his hand

Demanding More from our Sad Dads

By Elijah Beahm • June 26th, 2023

There’s a time and place for gaming’s sad dads as protagonists, but over the last decade or so, they’ve become worryingly common.

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Hope and Sacrifice in Andor

By Kiernan Elam • March 21st, 2023

Andor paints a clear and lucid picture of the absolute power authoritarians can wield over people and how cruel fascism must be in order to preserve that power.

Title card for Silent Running, with a beaming sun visible just over the top of a spiked geodesic dome floating through space

Everyone Has a Job: The Future of Silent Running (1972)

By Orrin Grey • December 13th, 2022

Anyone who complains that modern movies are too didactic probably shouldn’t watch Silent Running, which puts all its theses into the mouth of Bruce Dern’s space-bound ecologist.

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A painting of the many-headed King Ghidorah surrounded by a hazy orange glow. The three heads are roaring into the sky.

Monstrous

By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022

Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.

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The desert landscape of Tatooine whips past with two pod racing engines connected by a purple beam.

Podracing Towards an Absent Future

By Samuel Kendall • July 26th, 2021

Because Star Wars isn’t really Star Wars anymore.

Rookie of the Year

Wookie of the Year

By Matt Marrone • March 31st, 2021

It’s part of growing up in America, that moment when a child discovers Star Wars.

An image that shows two figures holding light sabers aloft with text that reads "Jedi Temple Challenge"

The Best Star Wars Show is a Weird Game Show

By David Shimomura • July 20th, 2020

In truth, there’s almost nothing original in Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge outside of the “dark side.” The show really is just Legends of the Hidden Temple with a veneer from a galaxy far, far away.

Lightsaber Dueling Pack

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 4th, 2020

Relive the duel between Luke and Vader over and over again, without breaking a sweat! No lightsaber toy necessary!

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