Princess Leia’s Star Wars gold bikini fetches $175,000 at auction
The famous costume, worn by Carrie Fisher in Return of the Jedi, was sold alongside a miniature aircraft used in A New Hope that fetched $1.6m
May 2024
News of the World paid women to sleep with celebrities, James Blunt says
Tabloid had women on payroll to get stories about people’s sexual performance, singer tells Hay festival
June 2023
Wonderwell review – Carrie Fisher’s final film is an ill-fitting tribute
The late actor has a small role alongside Rita Ora in a long-delayed fantasy now limping to the screen with deservedly little fanfare
May 2023
Return of the Jedi at 40: a flawed reminder of when Star Wars was still an event
The third chapter in the beloved sci-fi saga is riddled with problems but there’s still something charming in revisiting the universe before it expanded too much
May 2020
The Empire Strikes Back at 40: did the Star Wars saga peak too early?
A thrilling sequel opened up the Star Wars universe back in 1980 for better or worse with many underwhelming chapters then following
December 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review – a thrilling, fun-filled, light-speed finale
Week in geek
The people's princess: why Carrie Fisher is at the heart of The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan review with spoilers: 'The thrill is tangible'
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review – death is not the end in new trilogy's laborious exit
November 2019
Goodbye Leia: Carrie Fisher's journey from film star to 'savage' writer
In an extract from her biography, Sheila Weller recounts how the actor’s confessional writing broke the Hollywood mold
October 2019
The Rise of Skywalker trailer – five things we learned
In the final Star Wars movie, Kylo Ren is devilish, Palpatine is spooky, C-3PO pegs out, Jannah leads the charge and Rey sparkles
June 2019
Mark Hamill calls for Carrie Fisher Walk of Fame star to replace Donald Trump's
Trump’s star, defaced multiple times, remains a political battleground after council voted for its removal in 2018
May 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – what we learned from the Vanity Fair special
JJ Abrams and co have hinted the finale will involve less CGI, more new characters … and screen time for Carrie Fisher
Buffing up Bond: when it's time to send for the script doctor
As Phoebe Waller-Bridge puts a spring in Bond 25’s step, we salute the craft of Hollywood’s rewrite maestros, from Carrie Fisher to Quentin Tarantino
Star Wars' Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca actor – in pictures
Mayhew, who has died aged 74, played the much loved Wookiee in the original Star Wars films, before becoming a stalwart of the fan convention circuit
April 2019
Star Wars Episode IX trailer: our five biggest takeaways
The Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Episode IX title revealed as first trailer drops
February 2019
Week in geek
This Star Wars mega-trailer offers us a thrilling sense of what might have been
The 'Burbs at 30: how the cult comedy horror skewered suburbia
December 2018
Influential movies: a tale of two studies
Letter: A study that named the Wizard of Oz as the world’s most influential film might not be all it seems, according to Ian Christie
