'May the Force be with you', this time

A long time ago, in an Australian cinema far, far away, I watched Star Wars for the first time.

It was a rerun of Return of the Jedi, the third release in a trilogy of sci-fi action films brimming with galactic swashbuckling, a morality tale in which the Jedi and Rebel Alliance (good guys) fight the Sith and The Empire (bad guys).

An embarrassing amount of my childhood was subsequently spent trying to "use the Force", a mystical Jedi power that among other things allows you to move objects with willpower alone.