The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

I said: It will be remembered that Alan Dean Foster (nodding at Frank Herbert, I am sure) inserts a little quote from Princess Leia int...

Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. Try again. Fail better. Samuel Becket * This was not the essay I wanted to write. I wanted ...

I'll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles! Doctor Faustus In a 1980 interview Mark Hamill recalled how George Lucas had originall...

People who don’t like Star Wars seem to have mostly liked the Last Jedi; it is Star Wars fans who seem to have had misgivings about it. ...

The controversy over The Last Jedi has become so incendiary that one hesitates to rejoin the fray. I thought I was going to be one of a sm...