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The Sheep Detectives

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  • Title: The Sheep Detectives
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When a lovable shepherd (Hugh Jackman) dies who will solve his murder? Why, his sheep of course! Based on Leonie Swann’s novel, a flock of sheep (who have been raised on murder mysteries) set out to solve the death of their beloved owner. As Lily (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the smartest of our GCI woolly investigators, knows, there are rules to every investigation which, believe it or not, with the unlikely help of a buffoonish local police officer (Nicholas Braun), are destined to lead to the truth.

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Van Helsing

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  • Title: Van Helsing
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Van Helsing

Spooky Saturday takes a look back at a film that was decidedly not. Tom Cruise‘s The Mummy wasn’t the only film to kill a revival of Universal Pictures’ monsters before it ever got started. 13 years earlier that honor went to Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, and Van Helsing. While a financial success, the negative response to the film killed any similar future projects for more than a decade.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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  • Title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-ray reviewIt’s somewhat amazing that between X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine that 20th Century Fox didn’t manage to destroy their X-Men movie franchise. For Throwback Thursday we take a look back at the first of the Wolverine standalone films. X-Men Origins: Wolverine delves into the unexplored past of Logan (Hugh Jackman) while continuing to refuse to quite nail down the exact date of his birth. Not fitting in at all with the timeline of the other X-Men films, the movie has been largely ignored in current continuity (although one important aspect does return in Logan).

Along with a brief introduction of Logan as a child, and a montage of him working with Team X, the story jumps forward to events which will pull him out of his quiet life in the Canadian wilderness with Silverfox (Lynn Collins) and lead to both his adamantium upgrade and events which will cause him to lose memories of his past.

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