A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Against a backdrop of ever-shifting loyalties, uneasy alliances and ancient hostilities, the conflict between the Republic and the Separatists ramps up, setting the stage for Darth Sidious' ultimate act of treachery against the Jedi. In these uncertain times, some of the deepest mysteries of the light and dark sides of the Force are revealed as an intrepid clone trooper uncovers a shocking conspiracy, Anakin Skywalker's closest relationship is tested to its limits, and Master Yoda makes a discovery that could forever change the balance of power in the galaxy. Complete your collection and experience all the wonder, intrigue, action and suspense of THE LOST MISSIONS in 13 must-own episodes -- plus a Behind-The-Scenes Documentary -- as this thrilling chapter of the STAR WARS saga comes home on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time! Although George Lucas's Star Wars: The Clone Wars was a critical and popular success during its five-season run on Time-Warner's Cartoon N

“Star Wars Rebels – The Complete Season One” Created by Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Carrie Beck Based on “Star Wars,” created by George Lucas Starring the voices of: Taylor Gray, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Vanessa Marshall, Tiya Sircar, Stephen Blum, Ashley Eckstein On Tuesday, September 1, 2015, Disney/Buena Vista Home Entertainment released “Star Wars Rebels,” an animated series set five years before the events of George Lucas’s “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope.” Produced by Lucasfilm Animation, the team behind the Emmy-winning “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” the series is Disney’s first “Star Wars” project since the company’s purchase of Lucasfilm Limited in 2012. As created by Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Carrie Beck, “Star Wars Rebels” bridges the gap between “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and the original “Star Wars” trilogy. It airs on cable’s Disney XD channel, although it premiered on the mothership Disney Channel on October 3, 2014 with the one hour pilot

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season Five “Ready he is to teach an apprentice. To let go of his pupil, a greater challenge it will be. Master this, Skywalker must.” –  Yoda,  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  (2008) All Good Things… On October 3, 2008, George Lucas’s CG-animated series  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  premiered on cable’s Cartoon Network. The 3D animated show aired two months after the theatrical release of the eponymous animated feature directed by Dave Filoni, the man tapped by Lucas as the TV show’s supervising director. After five seasons on Time Warner-owned Cartoon Network and 108 episodes,  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  ended its run on March 2, 2013. Lucasfilm, now owned by the Walt Disney Company, decided to wind down  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  in order to focus on the new live action Sequel Trilogy of Episodes VII-IX. Lucasfilm also needed its animators to start production on a new animated series,  Star Wars Rebels. ( Star Wars Rebels  will begin

Before the November 2009 release of  Star Wars - The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One  Blu-ray and DVD sets, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm released two four-episode "volumes" of episodes of the Cartoon Network's animated anthology series set between  Attack of the Clones  and  Revenge of the Sith. The first volume,  A Galaxy Divided,  is a no-frills presentation of the series' first four episodes ( Ambush, Rising Malevolence, Shadow of Malevolence  and  Destroy Malevolence ); the first of these is a Yoda versus Asajj Ventress battle of wits, while the others make up a complete story arc in which Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano are on a seek-and-destroy mission against a Separatist superbattleship commanded by General Grievous. Because  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  (like Lucasfilm's  The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ) doesn't have a well-defined chronology, Volume Two : Clone  Commandos takes th

When I was a much younger  Star Wars  fan in my early teens, one of my hopes was that George Lucas would create a TV spinoff based on the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 as they faced off against the evil Darth Vader and the legions of the Empire. Of course, I had no idea that Lucas had made the film now known as  Episode IV: A New Hope  with two other films in mind, nor did I (being naive and unschooled in the business of filmmaking) realize how expensive it would have been to adapt  Star  Wars from the big screen to the little one and make it work as well as the late Larry Gelbart had done with the TV version  of M*A*S*H. After the disastrous one-time airing of the   misbegotten  Star Wars Holiday Special  in 1978 and the somewhat lackluster live-action set-on-Endor TV movies Lucasfilm released in the early 1980s, I realized that maybe  Star Wars   wasn't really one of those film sagas that was meant to be given the  M*A*S*H  tr

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season Four During the 2008 fall television season, the Time-Warner-owned Cartoon Network and Lucasfilm Limited returned to George Lucas’s “galaxy far, far away” with a new animated series titled Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Set during the intergalactic conflict from which its title is derived, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a 3D computer-animated follow-up to the 2003-2005 2D Cartoon Network “micro-series” Star Wars: Clone Wars, which bridges the three-year gap between the Prequel Trilogy’s Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.   (Supposedly, the two shows are intertwined, with the newer series taking place between Chapters 22 and 25 of the 2D series, even though there are always going to be some continuity issues that hopefully will be addressed as the narrative of  Star Wars: The Clone Wars evolves.) Although the feature-length film Star Wars: The Clone Wars was not warmly received by many Star Wars fans and media