Man Of Steel

(M) ★★Director: Zack Snyder.Cast: Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne."What a beautiful day. Be a shame if someone were to destroy it in a blizzard of CGI."FOR DC Comics, there is a lot on the line with this reboot of the Superman saga.If Man Of Steel flies like a bird or a plane, it will open the door for DC's own shared universe, which they hope will rival Marvel's ongoing Avengers'...

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Monsters University

(G) ★★★Director: Dan Scanlon.Cast: (voices of) Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren.Mike was just minutes away from being used as a hackysack.AMID the heavy hitters of Pixar's back catalogue, Monsters, Inc. is the under-rated gem.Often unfairly overlooked compared to the Toy Story trilogy, Up, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles, the tale of scare-mongering duo Sully and Mike Wazowski was a wildly original, creative, hilarious...

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Cloud Atlas

(MA15+) ★★Director: Tom Tykwer & The Wachowskis.Cast: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, James D'Arcy.Rainbow Serpent Festival was really going off this year.DAVID Mitchell's tour de force novel Cloud Atlas is a sprawling, epoch-spanning marvel that's as entertaining as it is ambitious.It's also one of those books that was always going to be difficult to...

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