‘Jedi Kittens Strike Back’ (VIDEO)

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This adorable and hilarious nod to the Star Wars franchise was posted by YouTube user FinalCutKing and is a sequel to the viral “Jedi Kittens” posted in August which has been viewed more than a million times. The follow-up is quickly becoming a legend in its own right with more than 1.6 million views in just a week.

‘Empire Strikes Back’ Chosen for National Film Registry

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The Empires Strikes Back and 24 other films, including a 1967 George Lucas student film, have been selected by the Library of Congress for archival and preservation in the 2010 National Film Registry. This year’s selections were singled out for their “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant contributions and will be preserved for all time. This [...]

How ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Should Have Ended (video)

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Sometimes Hollywood can be predictable and even our favorite movies and television shows don’t quite measure up when it comes to character development and resolving plots and story lines. For those of us with a more critical mind, there are the great folks at “How It Should Have Ended (HISHE).” Founded in 2005, HISHE came [...]

New Book: The Making of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (video)

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J.W. Rinzler has followed up his tremendous success with The Making of Star Wars (2007) with a new in-depth account of The Making of The Empire Strikes Back just in time for the film’s thirtieth anniversary. Rinzler gathered information from several sources: original interviews with the actors and filmmakers while the movie was being filmed; [...]

Star Wars Celebration V Set to Land in Orlando, FL

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As anyone who knows me can tell you, I am a hopeless Star Wars nerd, and gosh darn proud of it! So I’m super-duper excited that my best friend is arriving tonight to accompany me to Orlando, Florida for the biggest Star Wars party in the Milky Way galaxy. This year the event is at the Orange County [...]