"No, there is another." This one line spoken by Yoda during "The Empire Strikes Back" set off three years of speculation before it was revealed in "Return of the Jedi" that Leia was Luke Skywalker's twin sister and, therefore, the "other" hope to defeat the Dark Side. Yet there was...

On May 25, the third film in the original Star Wars trilogy, "Return of the Jedi," will turn 30 years old. To celebrate, HuffPost Entertainment is publishing this exclusive excerpt from J.W. Rinzler's excellent "The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi," due to be released on...

It's hard to ignore when "Fast & Furious 6" director Justin Lin compares his latest installment of the hugely successful franchise to a Robert Altman movie -- especially since Altman wasn't exactly known for scenes featuring tanks haphazardly steamrolling over oncoming traffic.

Ahead is a fairly comprehensive...

"Return of the Jedi," the third film in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, was released on May 25, 1983. Lucasfilm, the production company founded by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, is celebrating the film's 30th anniversary with a new book documenting the making of "Jedi." ("Star Wars" and...

On Friday, the sixth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise, this one titled Pollock Fast & Furious 6, will open at a multiplex near you. Vin Diesel (Saving Private Ryan) and Paul Walker (The Skulls) reprise their roles from...

There's a montage in "The Hangover Part III" -- a retrospective, if you will -- of the Wolfpack "through the years." While watching images from all three "Hangover" movies flash across the screen, it's hard not to think about Bradley Cooper's own journey since the first film debuted...

Bill Hader and Fred Armisen are officially gone. As for Jason Sudeikis, who really knows at this point? I would assume that, right now, he doesn't know for sure either. But I have a hard time believing that, if he were leaving,...

Ken Jeong is having a nice couple of weeks. First, the doctor-turned-actor's television series, "Community," was surprisingly renewed for a fifth season. And next week, the third and final installment of the hugely successful "Hangover" series will be released -- featuring a substantially larger role for Jeong in his criminal,...

Even during elementary school recess, all of the cool kids were playing Star Wars, not Star Trek.

I use the term cool loosely. I'm really talking about the coolest kids I could hope to spend meaningful time with. The truly...

When I woke up this morning to the news that Bill Hader was leaving "Saturday Night Live" after this weekend's season finale, my initial reaction was something along the lines of, "Well, I guess that was expected." His contract was...

Noah Baumbach directed his first feature-length movie, "Kicking and Screaming," in 1995, about that uncertain, post-college phase of life. (It's a personal favorite of this reporter.) Of course, the best known movie with that title is a 2005 effort about a youth soccer team starring Will Ferrell. (Not a personal...

Ah, yes, the trials and tribulations of interviewing an actor about the role he's playing when that actor can't really talk about said role. Or, as Benedict Cumberbatch jokes about his notoriously secretive "Star Trek Into Darkness" director, J.J. Abrams, "He's right here now with a gun pointed to my...

Less than a year ago, Kristen Wiig was given an emotional and touching graduation-style sendoff from "SNL" that very few cast members ever received. So, that's why it was a little weird seeing her "back in school" so soon --...

I hate the last episode of Seinfeld. This is an admittedly odd way to open up an essay that is primarily about Friends. I also realize this isn't a unique or particularly notable opinion to express, since most people who have seen the...

Eli Roth is a huge "Star Wars" fan. Last year, when I solicited opinions from contemporary filmmakers about "Star Wars" for a piece on the original film's 35th anniversary, the "Hostel" director submitted a series of "Star Wars" drawings from his childhood. Then, last month, we...

Justin Lin has achieved mass success by directing the last four installments of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, including the newest entry, "Fast and Furious 6," which opens May 24. Before his relationship with Dom Toretto started in earnest however, Lin was best known for the 2002 Sundance Film...

I am a firm believer that, if you're going to attempt something, you should give it 100 percent or don't attempt it at all. This is why I don't attempt a lot of things. Some might consider this lazy. I at...

The past hallmarks of a Zach Galifianakis-hosted "SNL" have been (A) absurdest humor and (B) Galifianakis ending the show with less hair than when he started. Last night, Galifianakis' hair remained intact in what was an ... OK enough show. But, really,...

Star Trek Into Darkness -- the sequel to 2009's Star Trek -- out in theaters across the United States on May 17. Will it live up to four years of pre-release hype? Are the crazy rumors about the film's main villain true?...

Don Cheadle doesn't mince words when it comes to his feelings on wearing the actual Iron Man suit. Or, in his case, the Iron Patriot suit -- a rebranded, star-spangled version of the War Machine suit from "Iron Man 2." At least, I don't think I'm misinterpreting his disdain when...