A telltale interview contemporary to The Phantom Menace reveals that Star Wars has had the same problem since the beginning.

The excitement for The Phantom Menace was scorching hot. Then the movie came out and, well, it was certainly something. Now, all these years later, we can wrap our heads around Episode I of Star Wars.

The right’s fixation on “equality of outcome” as a specter haunting the Western world is not merely a misunderstanding. It is ...

But so far it seems like the trade war is shaping up to be merely a phantom menace. The U.S. and Mexico will likely reach some agreement, as will the U.S. and Canada. It’s a crude, vulgar bit of ...

In Phantom Menace, podracing is depicted as a dangerous form of racing that is disproportionately popular among the citizens ...

Economists are geeks. Star Wars parallels are tempting: US President Trump as the Trade Federation leader; Trump’s largest donor Musk as Chancellor Palpatine, railing against bureaucrats; and ...

Orlando Bloom says he sympathizes with his “Pirates of the Caribbean” costar Keira Knightley, who has expressed mixed feelings about the media attention she received after appearing in the blockbuster ...