Episode 11: Star Wars (1977)

Today I’m looking at Star Wars (1977), the film that really kicked off my whole movie watching life. I first saw it in the cinema when I was four, and it just landed as this massive experience—good versus evil, rebels versus Empire, lightsabers, spaceships, the whole thing. Harrison Ford as Han Solo was the standout for me, all attitude and charisma, and Darth Vader is still one of the great screen villains, just pure presence and menace. It’s simple storytelling, but it’s done with so much energy and imagination that it’s stuck with me ever since.