When Stars Wars was first released in 1977 (without the subtitle A New Hope but simply as Star Wars) it was greeted with instant adoration by movie fans and surprisingly robust (if nowhere near universal) critical acclaim. And why not? It was the...

It is difficult to think of another film which has been so substantially changed for the first-time viewer more than the second entry in the original Star Wars trilogy, the 1980 sequel to the eponymously-titled blockbuster which started it, The...

It was George Lucas who in 1977 (with the release of Star Wars: A New Hope) reintroduced the world to Joseph Campbell’s works, particularly the ideas expressed in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces and a concept he discussed therein called “...