The Mandalorian & Grogu is in cinemas from 22 May. Add it to your watchlist Not so long ago (in a galaxy very, very near) it would have been unthinkable to suggest a world in which Star Wars was thought of predominantly as a small-screen concern. But in the seven or so years since the most cinematic of all the major film franchises limply ended its sequel trilogy with the disastrously received The Rise of Skywalker, our only window into a galaxy far, far away has been through a glut of TV shows on Disney+. While there have been some undoubted highs during that stretch – with Tony Gilroy’s majestic Andor the clear pinnacle – there’s also been a sense that this TV-first approach was merely a brief blip before blockbuster status returned. What might not have been foreseen was that the return to the big screen would be born directly from one of those aforementioned streaming series. But that’s precisely what’s happened, with Jon Favreau returning to helm a bigger budgeted spin-off of his …