Star Wars Going Rogue Lucasfilm In almost exactly two months, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will finally hit theaters, and to celebrate, Disney has gone rogue and released a whole collection of gorgeous character posters. These new images introduce several of the galaxy’s newest heroes and villains, from the Joan-of-Arc-like Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) to the formidable Imperial commander Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn). (Sadly, however, a certain heavy-breathing Sith lord is nowhere to be seen. Read More...
The Arabic language doesn’t have an equivalent to the English letter “p” in its alphabet. That might have something to do with why an Egyptian military band traveling to Israel for a performance accidentally arrives not in the metropolitan Petah Tikvah, but instead in the (fictional) Bet Hatikva, a tiny dot of concrete in the middle of the Negev desert — that’s Bet Hatikva, with a “b,” as in “blah, blah, blah. Read More...
After nearly a decade of delivering killer post-emo pop-punk hooks and confounding copy editors at magazines, Chicago-based quintet the Academy Is… have decided to break up. “After nine years and three albums, the Academy Is… have decided to go our separate ways,” the band wrote in a statement on their official website over the weekend. “The music we have made together is a gift to you. From this point on, the Academy Is… belongs to you. Read More...
