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Gladiator 2 trailer reveals huge plot twist as identity of Lucius’s father is unearthed

Gladiator 2 trailer reveals huge plot twist as identity of Lucius’s father is unearthed

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free The second Gladiator II trailer comes with a huge reveal about the paternity of Lucius (played by Paul Mescal). Warning: Spoilers for Gladiator II are below. The newly released trailer reveals that Mescal’s character is actually the son of Maximus (played by Russell Crowe in the first film), and not Lucius Verus I, as he was made to believe since birth. In the scene, Lucius’s mother Lucilla (played by Connie Nielsen) shares words of wisdom with him as he readies himself for battle, saying: “Take your father’s strength, his name was Maximus, and I see him in you.” In another shot, Mescal looks at a stone wall with “Maximus” carved into it. In 2000’s Gladiator, the identity of Lucius’s father was never explicitly revealed but the signs were there, since Lucilla and Maximus were former lovers. There was also a clue they …

Coronation Street spoilers as Toyah gets shock news in hospital, DNA twist revealed and Sarah questioned

Coronation Street spoilers as Toyah gets shock news in hospital, DNA twist revealed and Sarah questioned

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There are shocks aplenty in Coronation Street next week and there’s also a new arrival. Starting with Toyah Habeeb and she’s horrified when she finds her sister Leanne Battersby showing Amy Barlow an Institute video to help relieve her stress and realises she is considering investing. Later, after she complains to Nick Tilsley that she has terrible stomach pains, he is shocked when he returns home from work to find Toyah in agony on the floor. He takes her to the hospital and as he and Leanne wait at her bedside the doctor has some shocking news. Later, while still in shock after the doctor’s news, Toyah is left reeling when he drops another unexpected bombshell. READ MORE: Coronation Street’s Tina O’Brien suggests new relationship for Sarah as she stuns in previously unseen co-star snap READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here Elsewhere, Bernie Winter waits for her long-lost son Kit in the Rovers to discuss how they tell Gemma Winter and Paul Foreman they have a brother, unaware he is already …

‘It doesn’t make any sense’: new twist in mystery of Mount Everest and the British explorers’ missing bodies | Mount Everest

‘It doesn’t make any sense’: new twist in mystery of Mount Everest and the British explorers’ missing bodies | Mount Everest

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“It will be a great adventure,” George Mallory wrote to his mother before leaving for the summit of Everest a century ago this week. His disappearance, along with his climbing partner Andrew Irvine, has become one of the most alluring mysteries in the history of exploration. A final, tantalising glimpse of the pair through mist not far from the summit has inspired successive generations of historians, authors and film-makers with competing theories on a single question: did they reach the top? Now there is a new mystery to solve about the fate of Mallory and Irvine: what has happened to their bodies? Mallory’s was discovered in 1999 by American climber Conrad Anker who left it where it lay; researchers had also zeroed in on the location of Irvine’s resting place. But Jamie McGuinness, who has reached the summit five times from the Tibetan side, said that following an extensive search of the area during an expedition in 2019, he has concluded the bodies of both British climbers were removed at some point in the 2000s. …

Sugar: Apple TV viewers react to ‘most insane twist ever’

Sugar: Apple TV viewers react to ‘most insane twist ever’

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Apple TV+ viewers are convinced the biggest twist in film and TV history has just landed. For weeks now, those tuning in to mystery detective series Sugar, starring Colin Farrell, have been pre-empting some form of revelation related to the character. The series, which was billed as “a genre-bending contemporary take on the private detective story set in Los Angeles”, follows Farrell’s John Sugar as he investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl. As Sugar has navigated his way through the case, there have been several hints that something strange was afoot, and that, when it comes to Sugar, not all has been as it seems. Reviews of the show from critics, who were shown all eight episodes before the series was released, corroborated this belief, revealing that a “wild” late-season twist shakes things up. Viewers had been waiting to find out exactly what this twist was – …

Apple TV+ show Sugar just had the most insane plot twist – and viewers are losing it

Apple TV+ show Sugar just had the most insane plot twist – and viewers are losing it

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Apple TV+’s new detective drama Sugar promised a twist on the ‘Neo-noir’ genre by introducing Colin Farrell as John Sugar, a kind-hearted private investigator who becomes embroiled in his latest case – discovering what happened to a famous movie director’s beloved granddaughter. However, there was a major twist in Friday’s episode that we definitely were not expecting. Warning, major spoilers ahead for Sugar season one, episode six…  What happens in episode six? In the episode, John is badly hurt when he is attacked while looking for Olivia, leading to to seek the help of his friend Melanie, but warns her not to contact a hospital, and instead calls his friend Henry to come to his aid instead.  Henry sends Melanie away while pulling out an unusual blood pack, and by the end of the episode, it is finally revealed why John needs mysterious injections, as well as the odd, sparkly blood. Locking himself in the bathroom, he uses the syringe to transform into a blue, alien creature. You got it, John Henry, Ruby and other members …

‘Sugar’s wild twist, explained | Mashable

‘Sugar’s wild twist, explained | Mashable

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You’d be forgiven for thinking Sugar is your run-of-the-mill type crime show, because up until the end of episode 6 that’s exactly what it is. John Sugar (Colin Farrell) has spent the season so far on the trail of missing influencer Olivia Siegel (Sydney Chandler), the granddaughter of powerful Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell). There’s mystery, there’s red herrings, and there’s the LA criminal underbelly. There’s Farrell’s gravelly-voiced narration. All pretty standard ingredients for a neo-noir missing person thriller. But then, right at the end of episode 6, things appear to go completely off the rails. So what exactly happened, and what does it all mean? Let’s dive in. SEE ALSO: The 20 best TV shows of 2023 What’s Sugar about? The eponymous Sugar is a kind of James Bond-type character, a private investigator who specialises in tracking down the missing. Driven by memories of his own sister, Sugar has been hell-bent this season on finding Olivia, whose brother David (Nate Corddry) is caught up in some shady business with human traffickers. Sugar is …

Randall Emmett continues to produce films with a new twist

Randall Emmett continues to produce films with a new twist

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On Friday, John Travolta debuts his latest film — “Cash Out,” an action thriller about a bank heist gone wrong. The trailer credits it as “a film by Ives.” “Cash Out” is the first and only project Ives has ever worked on, according to IMDb. But over his quarter-century in the entertainment business, “Ives” has in fact directed five films, produced dozens more and appeared on the reality TV show “Vanderpump Rules.” He was also the subject of a 2022 Los Angeles Times investigation and subsequent Hulu documentary that delved into allegations of abuse against women and assistants as well as mistreatment of business partners, which he has denied. It was after those headlines that Randall Emmett began using Ives, which is his middle name, as his professional name. The shift began on “Cash Out” and continued with its sequel, which was shot last spring at a Mississippi casino. On the set of “Armored,” a film made during the actors’ strike last fall, star Sylvester Stallone arrived on set unaware that Emmett was the project’s …

Sydney Sweeney’s mini shorts and cropped jacket gives the double denim trend a spring twist

Sydney Sweeney’s mini shorts and cropped jacket gives the double denim trend a spring twist

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Over the last few months, Sydney Sweeney has been doing the most on the style front, donning stellar gowns on the red carpet at movie press tours, dressing in sequin underwear for Paris Fashion Week and stepping out in blush pink gowns as the global brand ambassador for Laneige.  Although the Euphoria star has swapped out her sky-high heels for bare feet whilst on a much-needed holiday getaway, her stylistic statement wardrobe is still very much on duty and her recent cowgirl gore denim look proves exactly that.  © Instagram / @sydneysweeneyI will be recreating this look for festival season Posting to her 19.6 million Instagram followers yesterday the Miu Miu muse shared a series of images with her fans of herself living her best life in Hawaii. Donning a pair of Miu Miu mini denim shorts and a matching cropped denim jacket over a black itsy bitsy bikini the silver screen goddess put an effortless coastal spin on the cowgirl craze.  © Instagram / @sydneysweeneySyd is currently on island time Every fashion fanatic knows …

Revealed: the next Sherlock Holmes author, with a twist in the tale | Arthur Conan Doyle

Revealed: the next Sherlock Holmes author, with a twist in the tale | Arthur Conan Doyle

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The biggest thorn in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s side was the world’s obstinate obsession with just one of his creations: Sherlock Holmes. And now, 94 years after the author’s death, the story is much the same: the deerstalker hat and pipe remain the internationally recognised emblems of the greatest detective who never lived. The boxing gloves of Rodney Stone, his other adventuring hero? Or the bushy beard of The Lost World explorer Professor George Challenger? Not so much. But Conan Doyle’s descendants have a longterm plan to correct this imbalance, and the Observer can reveal their latest weapon. Thriller writer Gareth Rubin is bringing out a new, officially approved Holmes story that will give equal billing to arch-villain Professor James Moriarty. The new novel unites the detecting skills of the talented sleuth with those of his greatest adversary, a criminal mastermind who runs an unseen network of thieves, murderers and blackmailers and yet never leaves a trace to link him to the scene. Martin Freeman, left, and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. Photograph: …

Putin has a ‘factchecking’ operation, and so do other dictators – but they use them to twist the truth | Maxim Alyukov

Putin has a ‘factchecking’ operation, and so do other dictators – but they use them to twist the truth | Maxim Alyukov

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Asked by sociologists about his views on the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a Russian in his early 70s shifted the conversation to the massacre in Bucha – one of the worst atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine. Evidence of Russian war crimes was fake, he said: “Take Busha or Bucha or wherever it may be. The way they filmed it, the way the bodies were arranged: it was clearly a fake!” Two things stand out from this. He parroted, word for word, statements of Russian propaganda about bodies being actors “arranged on the ground”, echoing the claims of War on Fakes, the Kremlin’s imitation of a factchecking organisation. Yet despite his certainty, he did not know anything about the town, to the extent that he could not pronounce its name correctly. Relying on an “anti-fake” outlet modelled on western factchecking, he was not interested in facts but rather in shielding Russia from accusations. This reaction is illustrative of a wider tendency. Once a new democratic initiative, factchecking is being creatively adopted by …