Vision, January 2016 When Lupita Nyong’o finally signed up for JJ Abrams’s long-awaited Star Wars film last year, she joined an exclusive club. Before her, only Sir Alec Guinness – who famously played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the […]
The National, December 2015 “Exciting, spectacular and seductively innocent”; “A humongous piece of cinema … with intergalactic, warp-speed, panoramic blockbuster action”; “Bold but beautiful, nostalgic but new”. The critical reaction to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (and […]
The National, December 2015 As one of the stars of HBO’s smash-hit TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones, Gwendoline Christie is used to being part of a pop-culture phenomenon with a huge, extremely devoted – and […]
The National, December 2015 “Who are you?” asks a mysterious figure as a desert scavenger walks towards golden dunes. “I’m no one,” is the whispered reply. She isn’t no one, of course. She is Rey, […]
The National, September 2015 This is a big week for Star Wars fans, as the toys, models and figures that tie in to Episode VII: The Force Awakens arrive in shops around the world – […]