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Make Like Anakin and Fall in Love With This Queen Amidala Doll
If you had to make a list of visuals Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is best known for, Queen Amidala’s costumes would be right near the top. Darth Maul is certainly striking, the cities of Theed and Otoh Gunga are stunning, and those Naboo Starfighters are awesome, but Amidala’s dresses are more…
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Galaxy’s Most Deadbeat Son Mark Hamill Has Finally Met His Star Wars Mom
Nearly six years ago, Mark Hamill made the most shocking and scandalous of Star Wars revelations he could possibly ever make, sending the already perpetually tumultuous fandom’s heads spinning: he had never met Natalie Portman, aka his own goddamn space mother. At long last, this great injustice has been undone. Portman herself invited her son,…
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Anakin Skywalker, You Dramatic Son of a Gun
Darth Vader is Star Wars’ ultimate villain. We’ve always known that, but the revived era of the franchise has dug deep into Vader as a character beyond his iconography to re-establish why we’re fascinated with him, why we’re so scared of him, and why we ultimately invest in him. Obi-Wan Kenobi understands this in returning…
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Attack of the Clones at 20: How the Star Wars Prequel Changed My Life
My life changed drastically the day I first saw Attack of the Clones. It was the first day the film opened, May 16, 2002, and I’d been awake a long time. The day before, May 15, I spent over 12 hours outside of the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City waiting for a midnight screening…