Celebrity-studded ‘White Dudes for Harris’ call raises $4m for vice-president
Jeff Bridges, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo and contenders for Harris’s VP pick among 190,000 participants in Zoom call
May 2024
Star Wars’ Mark Hamill hails ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ after White House meeting
Actor brings force of Hollywood to trumpet Biden’s legislative record in briefing that both delighted and bemused journalists
June 2023
Week in geek
Just as we’ve fallen in love with digi-Luke, is Mark Hamill really retiring from Star Wars?
Now we’ve seen de-aged, youngish, CGI-assisted Luke, surely this is the opportunity for the moisture farmer turned Jedi Master to return to the centre of the galaxy far, far away
May 2023
The Machine review – standup comedian makes for limp movie star
Bert Kreischer turns a famous routine into a full-length movie with some surprising visual style but a lack of laughter
October 2022
Mark Hamill calls for more drones for Ukraine to fight Russian invasion
Star Wars actor promotes Ukrainian drive for donations and compares Russia to ‘evil empire’
June 2022
Colin Cantwell obituary
Artist and designer who created spaceships, stations and vehicles, including the X-wing starfighter, for the Star Wars films
May 2022
Week in geek
Will Lucasfilm’s strange new rules help or hinder Star Wars?
The studio has decided never to recast familiar old characters – but does this misunderstand the space saga’s very appeal?
October 2021
Internet wormhole
The Bigger Luke Hypothesis: going deep on Star Wars’ most absurd fan theory
According to diehard ‘Lukers’, two Luke Skywalkers appear in the original trilogy – one a tiny bit shorter than the other. James Shackhell investigates
December 2020
Week in geek
The Mandalorian's second season has come to an end ... but what's coming next?
There remains ample room in the galaxy for new adventures outside the traditional timeline
June 2020
John Boyega's rousing Black Lives Matter speech wins praise and support
Boyega’s Star Wars co-stars were among those congratulating the actor on a passionate address at anti-racism demonstration in London
December 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review – death is not the end in new trilogy's laborious exit
Some familiar – and some surprising – franchise favourites return for a final fling in JJ Abrams’s whoppingly comprehensive galaxy quest
June 2019
Child’s Play review – a Chucky for the techno-fear age
A new creative team has taken over the franchise with mixed results
Child's Play review – a razor-sharp and exquisitely gruesome toy story
The knife-wielding doll is updated for the digital era in a horror reboot that shrewdly skewers western consumerism
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' 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
Week in geek
The Rise of Skywalker: why no one ever really dies in Star Wars
Nostalgia’s taking over, judging by the teaser for the ninth Star Wars movie. So will we be seeing Padmé, Boba Fett, Jar Jar Binks or even Palpatine again?
March 2019
10 of the strangest star cameos in video games
Rami Malek’s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty … improbable roles for A-listers
August 2018
Week in geek
Do we really need 'Force ghost' Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IX?
Skywalker’s story reached a natural end in The Last Jedi. But Disney won’t let a good thing die, and Mark Hamill is due to return, alongside Carrie Fisher
February 2018
Eugenius! review – Mark Hamill is a robot called Kevin in superhero show
A school nerd escapes the bullies but meets a murderous movie mogul in an imaginative 1980s-themed musical
January 2018
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New Jedi mind tricks: is Star Wars morphing into 'Harry Potter in space'?
Get ready for a load of new Jedi skills as the space saga expands its universe into a galaxy far, far away from the one created by George Lucas
