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10 Of The Silliest Star Wars Names For Real-World Objects
The Star Wars galaxy is a weird and wondrous place, full of laser swords, aliens and sentient robots. This can make trying to depict the banality of life there a bit difficult. So over years of tie-in material, writers have had to come up with oodles of new words to make the normal things people…
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7 Great Directors Who Surprised Everyone By Making A Genre Film
In light of the recent news that Quentin Tarantino might make a Star Trek movie – an R-rated Star Trek movie, at that – we picked our jaws up off the floor and starting thinking about other directors who took one notable, unexpected detour into the realms of sci-fi or fantasy. Here are seven favourites.
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The 7 All-Time Worst Dudes In Outer Space
Between the alien monsters, the crazed androids and the malfunctioning ships, space is already totally scary before you start factoring in humans and all their potential awfulness. And yet, there’s something about space that seems to attract a lot of arseholes. Case in point: All seven of these guys.
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10 Incredibly Silly Han Solo Stories That Absolutely Won’t Be In The Solo Movie
The allure of Han Solo is one of the most potent draws of the whole Star Wars mythos. A swarthy smuggler with a troublesome past who evolves into one of the Rebellion’s greatest heroes? It was an appeal that led to all sorts of stories being written about Han in the myriad tie-in novels and…