Rey was the main hero of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, but the franchise just explored the opposite possibility, revealing ...

There are few villains more iconic than Emperor Palpatine. Across all three Star Wars trilogies (not to mention spin-off media and video games) he's an omnipresent threat; cackling, manipulative ...

Clive Revill, the actor who originally voiced Emperor Palpatine in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," has died. He was 94.

While the First Order continues to ravage the galaxy, Rey finalizes her training as a Jedi. But danger suddenly rises from the ashes as the evil Emperor Palpatine mysteriously returns from the dead.

This makes it one of the most important cut scenes of the entire saga. The entire story of Palpatine’s rise, and the fight against it, showed just how much George Lucas was a student of history.

The moment Darth Vader sacrifices himself to kill Emperor Palpatine and save Luke is undoubtedly a fantastic Vader scene, but the buildup comprises an even better Luke scene. After exchanging ...

The Rise of Skywalker is the final film in an epic saga that began 42 years ago, and tries to give one of the most beloved franchises of all time a fitting farewell. It mostly succeeds in tying up ...

His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that ...

When George Lucas created the Star Wars saga, it was a combination of many things. It has elements of Westerns, Arthurian legend, fairy tales, Samurai films, Flash Gordon serials, Frank Herbert ...

As the video’s narrator says, the prequels weren’t just a tragic tale of a Republic’s collapse. Nor were they about just the personal collapse of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader.