My spoiler-free review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker!

My spoiler-free review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker!

Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, officially released on Friday, with Thursday previews the day before! I have seen it several times already, and wanted to wait to write this review until after I had gotten multiple viewings in. This post will include only the faintest of spoilers, and nothing that you wouldn't [...]

Latest TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker tease “the rest” of Rey’s story

Latest TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker tease “the rest” of Rey’s story

Throughout the sequel trilogy, Rey has been wondering who she is and how she fits in to this story, waiting for her parents to return. In The Last Jedi, however, it was revealed that Rey's parents were nobodies - a fact important to remember, since Rey herself was the one who admitted this. This was [...]

What we learned from the new The Rise of Skywalker clip released in the Fortnite event!

What we learned from the new The Rise of Skywalker clip released in the Fortnite event!

On Saturday afternoon, Star Wars came to Fortnite with an event themed around the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker! You can read about the event here, which included appearances in-game from J.J. Abrams and the Millennium Falcon, as well as a voiceover from Palpatine. But perhaps most pertinent to our purposes was a brand new [...]

Breaking down the new shots from Amazon’s special look at The Rise of Skywalker

Breaking down the new shots from Amazon’s special look at The Rise of Skywalker

Amazon recently released a special look at The Rise of Skywalker, and the video takes a look back at the saga from a behind-the-scenes perspective. There are interviews with J.J. Abrams, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, and these include interviews both old and new. The video is intended to [...]

Breaking down some of the various TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker!

Breaking down some of the various TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker!

So far, I've been keeping up with the publicly released TV spots from Star Wars for the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker, but there have been plenty of official TV spots from the film that have aired that haven't been uploaded to the official Youtube channel. Thankfully, Zcure1 on Twitter does tremendous work and captures [...]

Breaking down the “Forever” TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker!

Breaking down the “Forever” TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker!

Recently, a new TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker was released, this one called "Forever", and it has a lot of new footage and dialogue. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOsWnfYT0xI As we've been doing, let's dive in to the new stuff from this TV spot and break it down. At the bottom of the article, [...]

It’s now confirmed: Leia trains Rey in the ways of the Force in The Rise of Skywalker!

It’s now confirmed: Leia trains Rey in the ways of the Force in The Rise of Skywalker!

When the TV spot hit that showed General Leia Organa holding the Skywalker lightsaber in the jungles of Ajan Kloss, speculation continued to increase as to whether Leia might actually be continuing Rey's training. It turns out that's exactly the case. There was a press junket on Wednesday for The Rise of Skywalker, and included [...]

Breaking down the “Adventure” TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker!

Breaking down the “Adventure” TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker!

On Tuesday, Star Wars released yet another TV spot for The Rise of Skywalker, and this too contains new footage we hadn't seen previously. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4yxmserwg Like we've been doing, let's take a look at the new shots included in this trailer, and I'll speculate on what it could mean where applicable. [...]