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Empire Strikes Back deleted scene shows Han Solo could have been way more of a dick

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:54:30 PDT

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This never-before-released deleted scene from The Empire Strikes Back paints a pretty nasty picture of Han Solo. Watch as Han tells Leia "You're so busy being a Princess, you don't know how to be a woman. I could have helped you." Excuse us, what? Check it out over at Entertainment Weekly. More »

The lost Indiana Jones-Star Wars crossover was really depressing

Cyriaque Lamar — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:00:00 PDT

Here's some weird trivia to bandy about. In 2004, Dark Horse Comics published "Into The Great Unknown," a 10-page story that marked the first Lucas-approved (if non-canonical) meeting of Han Solo and Indiana Jones. It was also a massive bummer! More »

Three best scenes from last nights Robot Chicken Star Wars special

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:30:00 PST

Wow — last night Robot Chicken aired its third Star Wars special, and it was almost better than the first. It was truly spectacular, especially when Boba Fett called Luke Skywalker Jodi Foster. Here our our three favorite moments. More »

Amazing Star Wars short explains what was in Han Solo's dumped cargo

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:30:00 PDT

Now this is a Star Wars prequel we can support. Stop whatever you're doing and watch this hilarious Star Wars-inspired CG short, The Solo Adventures, right now. More »

Top 10 craftiest smugglers from science fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:52:51 PDT

If there's one thing space tyrants hate, it's a clever smuggler. When it comes to sticking it to the spaceman smugglers are the secret heroes of space opera. Here are the 10 greatest (and most dashing) science fiction smugglers. More »

From Grape-Hutts to Count Dookula: fake Star Wars cereals

Cyriaque Lamar — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:00:00 PDT

Folks who attend the Star Wars Celebration collecting panels will have a chance to collect 16 puntastic mini-cereal boxes. (Hothsted Flakes! Frost = cold! Get it?) Star Wars Celebration runs from August 12-15 in Orlando, Florida. [StarWars.com via Super Punch] More »

AP News can't differentiate between Han Solo and Lando Calrissian

Meredith Woerner — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:17:57 PDT

Everyone was at the Empire Strikes Back party for St. Jude Children's Hospital in LA, from Ewan McGregor to Peter Mayhew. AP's video recap of the event is all kinds of greatness, even if they got their space pirates switched. More »

The Empire Strikes Back: The film that introduced a generation to tragedy

Marc Bernardin — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:00:00 PDT

Thirty years ago, George Lucas sprung his Star Wars sequel upon a young moviegoing public that was simply unprepared for what they'd see: An unrelenting operatic downer, filled with pain, sacrifice, revelation, and loss. Good times. More »

Han Solo Figures Out the Whole Brother-Sister Thing

Marc Bernardin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:30:00 PDT

Given its reputation as family friendly, the original Star Wars trilogy has a surprising amount of incest in it. While we noticed the problem with the Luke-Leia-Han love triangle early on, Mr. Solo didn't catch on until right here. More »

Geek Love: His and Hers Star Wars T-Shirts

Marc Bernardin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:30:00 PDT

For the couple that wants to seal their love like a smuggler in Carbonite comes this matching set that captures the most romantically bad-ass exchange in all of scifi. More »

Get Your Han On With The Old Republic's Latest Characters

Graeme McMillan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:00:10 PDT

Worried that Star Wars: The Old Republic wouldn't let you live out your childhood dreams of becoming Han Solo? Fret no more - The MMO's website has just released details of the next playable class: The smugglers. More »

Han Solo, P.I.?

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:20:00 PDT

Interstellar scoundrel Han Solo and cocky private investigator Thomas Magnum, separated at birth? This reimagining of the Magnum P.I. credits with Han as Magnum (and Obi-Wan as Higgins) makes a persuasive case. More »

Love In The Time Of Carbonite, or the Best Couples from Star Wars

Kevin Kelly — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:00:26 PST

Star Wars may be an epic struggle between good and evil, but all that moral drama is just a vain attempt to hide all the love stories in the franchise that burned hotter than the sands of Tatooine. You've got brothers and sisters making out, robot on robot love, bestiality, bondage, phallic sabers, weird little microscopic life forms imbued with the power of the Force getting women pregnant, and plenty of inter-species sexual tension. It's a miracle that it all got past the ratings board. Check out our list of the hottest couples in the original Star Wars trilogy. More »

The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

Kevin Kelly — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:00:24 PST

Nothing warms the hearts and soothes the soul at holiday time like a hot laser slicing through your pain receptors. That's why we put together this list of the top seven torture scenes from science fiction, including one that spawned one of the lamest action figures in the world. (We didn't include the Star Wars Christmas Special, even though it features Bea Arthur singing, because it's only unintentional torture.) Real torture after the jump! More »