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‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 7-10 (1977-78) (Comic book reviews)

The “Star Wars” Marvel comics run has the distinction of offering the very first Expanded Universe stories. After the six-issue movie adaptation, the next four issues (7-10) were

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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ boldly goes … where the saga has already gone before (Movie review)

Like director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek” film, “Star Trek Into Darkness” gets all the Trek-isms correct. Everyone is still spot-on as alternate-universe versions of the iconic

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing: Isard’s Revenge’ (1999) (Book review)

“Isard’s Revenge,” the eighth book in the “X-Wing” series (and Michael Stackpole’s last), came out in April 1999, one month before “The Phantom Menace.” Overshadowed by

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A look at the ‘Firefly’ stories beyond the TV series and movie

Interviews with “Firefly” staffers often include the question of “What story ideas were never produced?” As such, we know they were kicking around episodes about

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30 reasons ‘Return of the Jedi’ rocks (and no, ‘Jedi Rocks’ is not one of them) (Movie commentary)

“Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi” turns 30 on Saturday, and it’s still looking good. So much so that George Lucas recently gave

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‘Serenity’ (2005) compresses unmade ‘Firefly’ Season 2 into a solid film

Like a lot of “Firefly” fans, I have mixed feelings about “Serenity,” the 2005 movie that continued the saga. It’s a solid movie by every important metric

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing: Solo Command’ (1999) (Book review)

Between the premature end of the “The Clone Wars,” rumors of a new animated series and a mysterious Facebook post of a TIE fighter from Dave Filoni, there’s been

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All 14 episodes of ‘Firefly’ (2002), ranked

Even in comparison to “Buffy” and “Angel” — which had already built up complex mythologies by the fall of 2002 — “Firefly” arrived as Joss Whedon’s most

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing: Iron Fist’ (1998) (Book review)

I didn’t remember a lot of details from the “X-Wing” series from my first readings back in the 1990s, but I did distinctly recall Ton

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘X-Wing: Wraith Squadron’ (1998) (Book review)

“X-Wing: Wraith Squadron” (1998), the fifth book in the “X-Wing” series, introduces us to the misfits of a newly formed squadron whose pilots boast a mix of

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