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Han Solo delivers an iconic Star Wars line at the end of Empire Strikes Back, but it's not the only thing he says that's hard ...
Let’s take a closer look at the “Luke Skywalker” Red Five X-wing model miniature, slated to be one of the headline pieces in ...
While Empire Strikes Back sets Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) up for an epic finale, it also misses ...
M ost fans cite The Empire Strikes Back, which turned 45 on May 21, 2025, as the greatest of the Star Wars films. But even beyond the franchise, the Irvin Kershner-directed chapter changed the ...
Then came The Empire Strikes Back – a gloomier film, admittedly, but also a slower, stodgier, more contrived, convoluted and repetitive one. Again, I’m not being perverse here.
“The Empire Strikes Back” hit theaters forty years ago, on May 21, 1980. And no Jedi mind tricks are needed to make the case that without the groundwork laid by one of the best sequels ever ...
“The Empire Strikes Back” is the ultimate in fantasies, a visual wonder and a movie that should be recommended highly if only because it makes you feel good.
Because top men in the Empire such as Grand Moff Tarkin — played in the original Star Wars by Peter Cushing — are upper-class types, Edwards recalls Mendelsohn asking if he should adopt “a ...