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George Lucas still loves Jar Jar Binks

The Star Wars director selects the widely-derided alien as his favourite Stars Wars character.

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Pawel Pawlikowski

Runtime

89 minutes

Rating

R

Language

Polish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Croatian

Cast

Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza

Availability

Select theaters December 21

Cold War, from Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski, is a haunted romantic epic in miniature, like a novel written with the...

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Almost a month and a half after it was first announced at New York Comic-Con, Marvel has pulled the plug on its latest Star Wars miniseries, Shadow of Vader, bringing an awkward end to the saga the publisher created by booting writer Chuck Wendig from the book in the first place.

Wendig made waves last month when he explained in a lengthy series of tweets that he had been fired from the...

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Watching each episode of The Gifted is like receiving an X-Men-themed Secret Santa gift that you enjoy a surprising amount despite the fact that it’s, well, kinda cheap and not at all something you would have picked out for yourself. It’s the thought and heart that counts, after all.

Continuing in The Gifted’s habit of paying homage to the X-Men rather than actually incorporating them into...

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The Blue Fairy is a major character in the 1940 Disney animated feature film Pinocchio.

It’s been 15 years since Mountain Dew first unleashed Baja Blast on the unsuspecting public, a partnership with Taco Bell that was a first for the vividly-colored soft drink brand. But now the Dew has dared to dance the wicked dance again, this time with KFC, unstoppering the cork on a soda that was created to pair specifically with the chain’s Original Recipe chicken.

Sweet Lightning, which a...

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I’ve been doing my best to stay off Craigslist, as I need to first fix my nine-automobile “problem.” But this morning I had a relapse, and in an attempt to justify making another poor decision, I wondered to myself “If it’s only $500, does that really count as a full car purchase?” There’s some OK cheap stuff on Detroit’s Craigslist, but it’s rusty. So I want to know: How much does $500 buy...

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Florida Republican governor and U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott is running neck and neck with Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson right now—which is about as good a position as one can expect to be in considering how deeply unpopular President Donald Trump is in Florida. A pair of stories which landed Wednesday, though, sure as hell aren’t going to help him.

This morning, The Young Turks reported...

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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

I never liked Destiny. But I respected it.

If that feels like a weird way to start a conversation about the beta for a video...

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Hollow Knight was finally released on Switch, and immediately shot to the top of the Best Seller list. It has been 24 hours and I have already put 3 hours in. This is my second playthrough after playing on PC last winter, and I am noticing a few things I wish I had known the first time I played, so here are a few tips:

1. Fast Travel

Hollow Knight is always saving your progress, but when you...

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Ryu’s been getting around lately. Sure, yeah, he’s in Street Fighter. But he’s also in Smash Bros. And he’s a Power Ranger ? And now he’s a Lego man, fighting Captain America ?

That’s what happens in this cute little stop-motion fight scene, via LEGO Empire on YouTube. The fight scene, which shows Ryu struggling against the implacable good-person-powers of Captain America and his sweet shield,...

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A California court will soon decide sentencing for a man who posted the entirety of Deadpool on his Facebook page. If the U.S. government gets its way, the man will spend half a year in prison.

A week after Deadpool was released in theaters, millions of people watched the film on a viral Facebook post by the account Tre-Von M. King.

The FBI found that the account belonged to Trevon Franklin, a...

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Persona 5 is my game of the year, and I wrote more about it than anything else in 2017. Here’s a selection of that stuff:

Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that he would be withdrawing from the recently-announced sanctions on North Korea—the same ones his own Treasury department imposed a day earlier.

Just yesterday, the Trump administration announced a new set of sanctions targeting two Chinese shipping companies it argued were helping the autocratic regime evade other international sanctions already in place. But...

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California’s state Senate and Assembly are forming a joint committee to create a system for handling sexual harassment complaints in the Capitol, marking the first time both houses have worked together on the issue.

The committee, led by Democratic Assemblywoman Laura Friedman and Democratic Senator Holly Mitchell, will attempt to unify the policies currently in place in each house, since...

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Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.

Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie.

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Double XP by M.S. Corley and Josh Crandall. Published November 8. Read more of...

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Climate change is one the greatest intergenerational injustices. Decades of profligate carbon emissions by older generations have conscripted their children and grandchildren to a hotter, more dangerous world . And the inaction of adults has ensured the world will need radical system change to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

A new analysis by Carbon Brief shows just how serious that...

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