Totally Generic 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.
Exploits Feature 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.
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.
Feature Excerpt 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.
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.
Feature Story 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.
Feature Excerpt 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.
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!
