Stars in their eyes

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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
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Main Cast: Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro
Running Time: 152 MIN

A Long Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away a young film-maker called George Lucas unleashed a movie on the world that was both highly original but also rooted in story-telling of the past – a fairytale for the modern age.
Flip forward 40 years and writer/ director Rian Johnson has done it again with the eighth film (ninth if you count Rogue One) of now the world’s most loved franchise.
Johnson has created a movie that is at once very Star Wars and yet very much its own film – a visually gorgeous, rip-roaring space opera that is part space chase, part journey of discovery.
The Last Jedi picks up pretty much straight after the end of The Force Awakens – The Resistance, with Princess Leia and Poe Dameron escaping from their old base in a rag-tag fleet that is a virtual sitting duck.
Finn is waking up from his medically induced coma, Rey is trying to bring Luke Skywalker back to the fold while Kylo Ren is being chewed out by Supreme Leader Snoke for his loss of the starkiller base.
We follow the four different narratives until they combine as good fights evil across the galaxy.
While the previous movie felt like a retelling of New Hope – The Last Jedi is very much its own film but with lots of nods to the past.
It’s funny, action-packed, filled with heroes and villains who make mistakes, which makes them feel more human in an alien world, and poignant, made more so by the loss of Carrie Fisher.
This is Star Trek Generations meets Thor Ragnarok set to a fairly subdued John Williams soundtrack.
– Tania Phillips