Patrick Stewart Rose From Obscurity to Boldly (and Baldly) Go Where No Yorkshireman Had Gone Before

Patrick Stewart Rose From Obscurity to Boldly (and Baldly) Go Where No Yorkshireman Had Gone Before

Sometimes a great casting choice reveals its greatness only after the fact. Terence Young, who directed the first James Bond film, Dr. No, was so distraught upon learning that his producers had hired Sean Connery that he protested, “Oh, disaster, disaster, disaster!” Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original Star Trek, was downright furious at…

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Marvel Studios ‘Deeply Saddened’ By Sir Patrick Stewart’s Death: ‘Brought Professor Charles Xavier To Life With Extraordinary Humanity’

Sir Patrick Stewart was beloved among Star Trek fans, but he also meant the world to Marvel lovers. As the calm and assured Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men franchise, audiences could always count on the actor — seen in the photo above with X-Men: Days of Future Past co-stars James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, and…

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Sophia Stel lets us into her world in a new FADER doc

Sophia Stel lets us into her world in a new FADER doc

Meet the Canadian singer whose swaggering, genreless music is breaking through. Off the heels of dropping the greatest album of all time, Sophia Stel is now the subject of Greatest, The FADER’s latest documentary, created in partnership with A24 Music, Audio-Technica, and Air. The Vancouver-based pop artist spent three days with director Alex Hodor-Lee for…

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Sir Patrick Stewart Dies At 86 After ‘Brief & Poignant Journey’ With Alzheimer’s

Awful news. Legendary British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at age 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise. A statement on his Instagram account broke the news: “We announce…

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Nathan Fielder Addresses Unconventional Doc Techniques in ‘You Can See Everything’ as Academy Doc Branch Members Weigh In (Exclusive)

On Wednesday at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Nathan Fielder, the co-director of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything, found himself, for the first time, in conversation with a bunch of other directors of top 2026 documentaries. And the unconventional nature and phenomenon reception of his and Oppenheim’s film was a hot topic of…

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