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Review: Rocketman

 Two-and-a-half weeks after its UK release I have finally watched Rocketman – the biopic about musician, Elton John. It’s taken me so long to get to this one because I’ve been busy watching Aladdin, Ma, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Anyway, directed by Dexter Fletcher, Rocketman tells the story of Elton’s…

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Where were you when the X-Men movies happened?

 Earlier this week, Fox’s X-Men movie series came to an end with the release of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, drawing a close to two decades of live-action adventures. Sure, we may get one more X-movie, in the shape of the long delayed super hero horror movie, The New Mutants, but for now it’s pretty much the…

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Review: X-Men: Dark Phoenix

 After 19 years and 12 movies, Fox’s X-Men movie series has come to an end. Regardless of what happens with The New Mutants – which may or may not get released next year – the X-Men films are pretty much done. How did the series come to an end? With the release of X-Men: Dark…

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Review: The Best of John Williams concert

 It’s been a busy weekend.  On Friday I checked out Ma. Saturday I spent time (and money) at Comic Con Manchester 2019, then revisited the Gremlins movies. Today I popped over to Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to watch the classical concert, The Best of John Williams.  It was superb. The concert – performed by the…

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Revisiting the Gremlins movies

 Yesterday morning I spent a few hours at Comic Con Manchester 2019 – a sci-fi/comic book convention featuring a number of guests from iconic movies and TV shows of the ’80s and ’90s. Some of those guests included Gremlins stars Zach Galligan, Frances Lee McCain and Judge Reinhold. Unfortunately I didn’t get to watch a…

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Comic Con Manchester 2019 was a success

 At around 9am this morning, I hopped into an Uber and set off on a short car ride to Comic Con Manchester 2019 (aka For The Love of ’80s & ’90s) – the latest sci-fi/comic book convention from Monopoly Events. Those who read It’s A Stampede! on a regular basis might recall that just a…

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Robert Pattinson IS Batman

 It’s official – Robert Pattinson is Batman. Variety is reporting that Pattinson will star as the Dark Knight in Matt Reeves’ forthcoming movie, The Batman. The actor will follow in a long line of Bat-actors which includes the likes of Adam West, Val Kilmer and Ben Affleck. The Batman is set to hit cinema screens…

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Review: Ma (2019)

 This week, Godzilla: King of the Monsters bashed its way onto cinema screens to become the biggest (and loudest) release of the week. But it’s not the only film out this week – today, Universal Pictures dropped Ma into multiplexes, to offer an alternative type of horror to Warner Bros.’ big monster movie. Directed by…

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Endgame inches nearer to the No.1 spot

 Time for another box office update, to see where we’re up to with Avengers: Endgame. Has it taken enough money to become the highest grossing movie of all time? No. As you’ll previously recall, Endgame has been doing so well at the worldwide box office that it flew past Titanic (1997) and has been hot…

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