“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” courtesy Disney. Excitement, eagerness and a little bit of fear; this is what the kids in “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” feel when they accidentally blast off their planet on an old pirate starship. But this is also how composer Mick Giacchino felt when he was…

Insert Foot vs. “Star Wars: The Acolyte” Like most of the “Star Wars” nerd nation with nothing better to do in middle age, I watched the first couple episodes of “The Acolyte” last weekend. Shockingly …  I have thoughts for Disney. The first is, “Should Disney make a series…

Did you know that Insert Foot appeared in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?” A strange thing happened recently when I asked my 14-year-old daughter – whom we’ll call “Lucy” (because that’s her name) – if she wanted to see the latest Marvel movie, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” She punched…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. The day before Father’s Day, I saw a meme of Darth Vader staring down the giant void in “The Empire Strikes Back,” right after he told Luke Skywalker they were related. Luke responded by choosing to fall about a billion feet until getting sucked into a…

Insert Foot vs. Bob Dylan haters and “The Rise of Skywalker.” Was there any better feeling this past week than knowing you’re in Bob Dylan’s will? OK, that’s cynical. Sorry. But, really … being on his Christmas list this year has to not really suck at all, either. Some…

1977 was a good year. Star Wars came out, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours came out, Voyager 1 and 2 launched, Harvey Milk was elected. I mean, yeah, disco still existed and there was that whole Son of Sam (serial killer) thing I guess—but, Star Wars! It was a pretty good year…