Rey’s Catch The Force Awakens J.J Abrams knocked it out of the park with The Force Awakens – a reboot of the classic themes that made me fall in love with Star Wars in the first place. In the process, the team also effectively rebooted lightsaber combat. The duel between Rey and Kylo Ren on…
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#14 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Torn Apart The Force Awakens Kylo Ren is my favourite Star Wars villain. Well, maybe Director Orson Krennic deserves a share of that particular pie. Kylo Ren is, at the vest least, my favourite villain of the Skywalker Saga. And, after all, that’s the deck we’re playing with in this monster countdown. Unsurprisingly, there is…
#19 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Luke Found The Force Awakens It’s not often that I’ll accurately predict a movie plot or twist. It could be staring me in the face, but I’ll rarely be able to call what trials, tribulations, successes and defeats a film will pose until I’m sitting in the theatre with it all unravelling in front of…
#27 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Rey’s Interrogation The Force Awakens When the team behind The Force Awakens scouted Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver from relative obscurity, they discovered a pair of top tier actors. Ridley’s been incredible as Rey at every turn, and Driver has brought immersive physicality to the role of Kylo Ren, as well as building quite the…
#39 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
“The garbage will do” The Force Awakens Fan service is a concept that is typically treated as a negative. Hardly surprising as a lot of the nods, winks and references to the previously popular are ham-handed and out of place. Star Wars usually avoids this trap. Fan service in a galaxy far, far away is…
#44 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Rey’s Vision The Force Awakens JJ Abrams loves a mystery box. His trailers rarely give the game away – just take a look at the veiled plot in the final The Rise of Skywalker trailer for proof – and with The Force Awakens mysteries only thickened as we dived deeper. When a curious Rey takes…
#46 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
March of the Resistance The Force Awakens Our heroes have been disarmed. Maz Kanata’s castle is in ruins. The First Order has descended upon Takodana and cast a wave of destruction. Just as hope fades, John Williams’ score begins to stir once again. Looking to the horizon, Han Solo spots what we all hoped to…
#47 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Meeting Rey The Force Awakens Movie soundtracks are my jam. The majority of the albums that populate my Spotify feed are film scores and John Williams brilliance is never far from my recently played. It’s often suggested that without Williams’ music, Star Wars would not have risen to being the cultural phenomenon that it is….
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