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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (12A)
Directed by Rian Johnson
IT'S been 40 years since legendary intergalactic hero Luke Skywalker made his debut in the first Star Wars film in 1977.
He’s back, still played splendidly by Mark Hamill, and now a sullen, bearded recluse living alone on a lonely rocky island — “the most unfindable place in the galaxy” – until, that is, Rey (Daisy Ridley) arrives to nag him into inducting her into the ways of the Jedi.
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