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Home Alone’s Director Takes Aim at Disney’s ‘Paint-By-Numbers’ Remakes
Disney is getting ready to do a reboot of the classic holiday film Home Alone, but one of the key figures behind it is not on board. Director Chris Columbus is not only speaking out against the remake for Disney+, he says it’s part of a larger problem of the studio doing safe reboots instead…
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10 Great Sci-Fi Tropes (and 5 That Should Be Shot Into Space)
Science fiction is a genre that’s full of storylines, plot devices, and techno-jargon that would be considered ridiculous in the real world. But these tropes are effective, so we keep using them. Over and over again. That might sound like a bad thing — relying on tried-and-true sci-fi tropes instead of creating something new in…
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Dune Gets a New Miniatures Game and Critical Role Launches a Publishing Arm in Tabletop News
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, Gizmodo’s column all about board games and tabletop games. This time around, we’ve spotted a brand-new publishing company from the folks behind Critical Role, along with an exciting expansion for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. Check it out!
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20 Superheroes Who Should Star in a Comic Book Musical
Comic book movies have crossed over into every subgenre — action-adventure, film noir, Shakespearean epic — but we have yet to experience a decent comic book movie musical. Which is such a shame, because there are so many talented people already in the comic book world who could lend their pipes