“On November 16, 1990, what appeared to be a fun-filled little family yarn about a kid left to his own devices at Christmastime and forced to fend off a couple of bungling burglars became an instant classic. Today, no holiday movie marathon is complete without a viewing of Home Alone, the movie that turned Macaulay Culkin into one of the biggest kid stars of all time.” Read more at Mental Floss. TikTok teens and K-pop stans are once again on their trolling game, this time flooding the Million MAGA March hashtag with pancake memes. Read more at The Mary Sue. Short Circuit, a 1986 sci-fi short film about an experimental military robot gaining sentience, is getting a remake. “As reported by Deadline, Short Circuit is getting a remake courtesy of a collaboration between Spyglass Media Group and Project X Entertainment. (The two companies are also working on the Scream remake.) The remake will be a family film with a screenplay by the writing team of Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman.” Read more at Gizmodo. NASA and SpaceX successfully launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday. Read more at PCMag. From Gone Girl to The Social Network, here are all of David Fincher’s movies ranked from worst to best. “In both his shadow-filled compositions and his often grisly subject matter, David Fincher embraces the darkness. But his rise through the ranks of Hollywood has a sunny, storybook quality.” Read more at Thrillist. The Winds of Winter, speculated to be completed in 2021, may fix one of the most disappointing deaths on Game of Thrones. Read more at Inverse.
