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Even after dominating popular culture for more than four decades, Star Wars has proven to be just as relevant today as it was in the past. The epic space opera has become so expansive and vast it now resorts to telling the origin stories of its original beloved cast. The standard Jedi or Sith is already so much more powerful than the average human or alien, making it difficult to grade who among them is stronger than the rest.

The fact that the Force has always been a nebulous concept, largely by design, doesn’t help narrow down the field. However, the Force isn't the only factor to one's strength. As many of Star Wars' most powerful champions have proven time and time again, a character's strengths can come from many sources in a galaxy far, far away.

Updated on December 4, 2023 by Jennifer Roy: As the Star Wars universe continues to expand,...

Queen Elizabeth has been played by numerous actors over the years — three in Netflix’s The Crown alone. But tracking not far behind when it comes to onscreen depictions of major British figures is former prime minister Tony Blair. Among the names to have stepped into the shiny brogues of the divisive politician are the likes of Damien Lewis, Robert Lindsay, Toby Stephens, James Larkin, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Mangan, Harry Enfield and Pierce Brosnan (as a version of Blair in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer). Michael Sheen has also famously played Blair three times.

Joining this illustrious list is Bertie Carvel, the star of stage and screen who joined The Crown for its final outings in seasons five and six. While he’s mostly a supporting bystander in season five, the sixth and final season of Netflix’s hit royal drama — which centered its first four episodes, now streaming,...

Clockwise from top left: Cad Bane, Darth Vader, The Grand Inquisitor, Asajj Ventress, Emperor Palpatine, General Grievous, Orson Krennic, Kylo Ren.Graphic: The A.V. Club

Obi-Wan Kenobi might object to this, because he doesn’t believe in “absolutes,” but Star Wars famously tends to categorize people into one of two...

Many Jedi who have used the Force for good have become corrupt and fallen to the dark side, serving themselves or a master above all else. The fallen Jedi in Star Wars all reached a breaking point that caused them to turn to the dark side, going further than they should have as members of the Jedi Order. The most dangerous fallen Jedi in Star Wars include Dagan Gera, Asajj Ventress, Taron Malicos, Barriss Offee, The Grand Inquisitor, Pong Krell, Ben Solo, Count Dooku, and Anakin Skywalker.

In Star Wars, the Force is a mysterious energy that binds all things, but some Jedi who have used it for good have become corrupt and fallen to the dark side. Jedi strive to exist at peace with it, abiding by its rules and devoting their lives to maintaining balance in the Force. But there also exists a dark side to the Force,...

Warning! This post contains Spoilers for Tales of the Jedi episode 6Star Wars debuts a new (and very cool) Imperial Inquisitor in Tales of the Jedi, though he may be a reworked Inquisitor seen before in the established canon. In Tales of the Jedi episode 6, Ahsoka Tano is in hiding following the end of the Clone Wars and Order 66. However, she's eventually discovered by this new Inquisitor in this new story that's actually based on a novel from 2016.

In the finale episode of Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is outed as a Jedi after saving a girl from being crushed to death. As such, the girl's brother reports Tano to the Empire in the hopes of receiving a reward, resulting in an Imperial Inquisitor being dispatched to investigate. Wearing an imposing mask and a black cape bearing the sigil of the Empire, one would think that this is a brand-new...

"Misbehaviour" is the new BBC Brit comedy feature, set in 1970 during the 'Miss World' competion, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, starring Keira Knightley as 'Sally Alexander', Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Manville, Rhys Ifans and Greg Kinnear:

"...A team of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 'Miss World' beauty competition in London, which saw the crowning of the first black competitor..."

Cast also includes Phyllis Logan as 'Evelyn Alexander', John Sackville as 'Robin Day', Suki Waterhouse as 'Sandra Wolsfeld - Miss United States', Clara Rosager as 'Marjorie Johansson - Miss Sweden', Emma Corrin as 'Jillian Jessup - Miss South Africa', Collet Collins as 'Jennifer Wong - Miss Guyana' and Emily Tebbutt as 'Yvonne Ormes - Miss United Kingdom'.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Misbehaviour"...

She’s quite the looker, regardless of her context, and Pippa Middleton couldn’t help but add some eye candy to the unveiling of Blue Sandstone Memorial at Westminster Abbey today (March 13).

The beautiful brunette donned a navy blue dress with matching shoes and long flowing brunette locks as she joined her family in honoring the late broadcaster and journalist David Frost who passed away last year.

Given that Frost was quite the comedian, Joanna Lumley and Sir Richard Stilgoe put together a lighthearted poem called “A Sonnet of Sorts of a Star” which was read during the ceremony.

It stated, "Shall I compare thee to Sir Robin Day? Thou wert more lovely and more temperate. Earth has not anything to show more fair, Hello, good evening, welcome, Frosty's there."

They continued, “No more TV-am, no Al Jazeera - We end not a career, but end an era; For now he's gone,...

Tributes have been paid to Sir David Frost, who has died suddenly at the age of 74.

During his lengthy career, Frost was at the forefront of major changes in broadcasting and used his skill, creativity and persistence to provide viewers with some of the most memorable moments in television - and in some cases, world history.

Digital Spy looks back at six ways in which Sir David Frost made his mark on broadcast media below.

1. That Was the Week That Was (TW3)

That Was the Week That Was - or TW3, as it was often known - made politicians and the establishment fair satirical game in the early 1960s at a time when the Profumo affair was dominating headlines. Commissioned by the BBC, Frost was chosen to anchor the programme by its creator Ned Sherrin.

TW3 lampooned the class system, Britain's waning influence on the world stage (as in the clip below) and foreign affairs,...

Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950s

What was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but recently its complexities and excitements have exercised historians Peter Hennessy and Dominic Sandbrook; and now there's Family Britain, the second book in David Kynaston's three-volume New Jerusalem project. Mercifully, this massive work – nearly 800 pages – is made highly readable by all sorts of extracts and quotations from diaries, columns and oral records, and deals as much with ordinary, everyday lives as with the machinations of politics and power.

There are surprises in it even for someone who lived delightedly through those years: was rationing really not finally called off until July 1954? Was a Tory government cheerfully still subsidising milk and National Butter in 1956? Some things I remember all...