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Out, Out, Brief Candle: Patrick Stewart, 1940-2026

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Adam Page remembers the late Sir Patrick Stewart…Before he was a knight, before he was the captain, before the Royal Shakespeare Company gave him a spear and told him to stand at the back, Patrick Stewart wrote obituaries. A teenaged hack on a local Yorkshire paper. By his brother’s account, he would skive off to […]

Patrick Stewart’s Professor X joins Hot Toys’ Avengers: Doomsday figure collection

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Having unveiled their upcoming Doctor Doom, Cyclops, Gambit and Magneto figures last month, Hot Toys has now added Professor X to its upcoming Avengers: Doomsday line with a new sixth scale action figure is inspired by the appearance of Patrick Stewart as the legendary founder of the X-Men, Charles Xavier, in the upcoming Marvel Studios […]

Doctor Doom is unleashed in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday D23 trailer

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Yesterday at Disney’s D23 Expo, Marvel Studios unveiled a new trailer for December’s hotly-anticipated Marvel Studios blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday, which sees a multiverse of heroes assembling for an epic showdown against a new enemy, Victor Von Doom. Watch it below…Universes collide and the Multiverse Saga begins its final chapter in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday. Beloved […]

Avengers: Doomsday Magneto and Professor X collectible statues unveiled by Iron Studios

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Following on from Hasbro, Hot Toys, and LEGO, Iron Studios has began unveiling its tie-in products for December’s Avengers: Doomsday with the reveal its of its 1:10 scale Professor Xavier and Magneto collectible statues which are inspired by the appearance of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the upcoming Marvel Studios blockbuster. The collectibles are […]

Movie Review – The Sheep Detectives (2026)

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The Sheep Detectives, 2026.Directed by Kyle Balda. Starring Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Tosin Cole, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Conleth Hill, Mandeep Dhillon, and featuring the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Brett Goldstein, Rhys Darby, and Bella Ramsey.SYNOPSIS:Every night a shepherd reads […]

New trailer for The Sheep Detectives starring Hugh Jackman

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Amazon MGM Studios has released a new trailer and poster for the upcoming mystery comedy The Sheep Detectives, director Kyle Balda’s adaptation of Leonie Swann’s novel Three Bags Full.When a shepherd who spends his evenings reading detective novels to his sheep turns up dead, his beloved flock decide to band together and become the detectives, […]

The X-Men return in latest Avengers: Doomsday trailer

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We’ve had teases and cameos ever since Disney completed the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, but now the original X-Men are set to make their return – presumably for one final ‘last stand’ – as part of the superhero epic Avengers: Doomsday, with the latest trailer for the Marvel blockbuster offering a glimpse at the […]

The Sheep Detectives trailer sees Hugh Jackman joined by a flock of mystery-solving sheep

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Amazon MGM Studios has debuted the first trailer for director Kyle Balda’s upcoming mystery comedy The Sheep Detectives.Based on Leonie Swann’s novel Three Bags Full, the film stars Hugh Jackman as George, a shepherd who enjoys reading mystery novels to his flock.  But when a shocking incident takes place at the farm, the sheep set […]

Lifeforce: A Film Only Cannon Could Have Made

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40 years on from its release, Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon…What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I’ve written about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon made […]