Following the convoluted plot of Disney’s latest Star Wars movie, and finding its place in the larger chronology, is a bit like navigating an asteroid field in the Millennium Falcon. Suffice it to say that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story takes place immediately before 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope. The grand villain of that original film was the vast, bureaucratic empire. Having displaced the galaxy’s ancient republic, Imperial creeps enforced their absolute power with the Death Star -- a space station capable of destroying any planet that resisted. For any who missed it, the heroic rebellion prevailed against the Death Star’s tyranny when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) managed to lob a torpedo into a stray exhaust pipe and blow the thing to space dust. Rogue One sets out to explain how the rebellion found the pipe. The empire of Rogue One is the epitome of the Anglocentric patriarchy. Darth Vader can hide behind his black...(Read Full Article)