Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice

(M) ★★Director: Zack Snyder.Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Gal Gadot."No, my mother is Martha!"IT’S the year of the superhero showdown.Magneto and Professor X will be at it again in X-Men: Apocalypse in May, Captain America and Iron Man throw down in Civil War in April, and right now we have the Caped Crusader duking it out with Kal-El of Krypton in Batman...

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Zootopia

(PG) ★★★★½Director: Byron Howard & Rich Moore.Cast: (voices of) Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Nate Torrence, Octavia Spencer, Jenny Slate, Shakira."He's behind me, isn't he?"THERE are moments in Disney’s latest animated classic-in-waiting where you have to remind yourself you’re watching a kids movie.It’s as if the directors and the seven people credited with the story decided to see how many “grown-up” ideas they...

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10 Cloverfield Lane

(M) ★★★½Director: Dan Trachtenberg.Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr."What do you mean 'tabletop gaming'? It's a goddamn boardgame!"WHAT is this film?Is it a sequel to the awesome 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield or not?The answer is definitely maybe. Cloverfield’s writer Drew Goddard, director Matt Reeves, and producer JJ Abrams all serve as either producers or executive producers, and the film theoretically...

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The Big Short

(M) ★★★★Director: Adam McKay.Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Brad Pitt."Why is your hair so weird?""Why is your hair so weird?"THE Global Financial Crisis was a mess – a catastrophic economic meltdown that left millions homeless and jobless across the US and rippled across the world sending entire nations to the wall.Fittingly, the movie about how that...

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