Captain America: Civil War (or why Civil War is better than Batman vs Superman)

(M) ★★★★Director: Anthony & Joe Russo.Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Daniel Brühl."Wait - are we running to something or away from something?"BEING the nerd that I am, it’s difficult to assess this, the 13th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe...

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Eddie The Eagle

(PG) ★★★½Director: Dexter Fletcher.Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jo Hartley, Keith Allen, Iris Berben, Tim McInnerny, Jim Broadbent, Christopher Walken."I thought I told you to shave those sideburns!"IS it possible to do a sports movie that isn’t completely overflowing with clichés?Probably not. Cinematic sport can’t exist without the underdogs, the redemptions, the montages, and the impossible dreams becoming realities. These components...

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The Jungle Book (2016)

(PG) ★★★★Director: Jon Favreau.Cast: Neel Sethi, (voices of) Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken."Soft kitty, warm kitty, potential child-eating kitty."NOT that long ago in cinematic history, special effects reached a point where it became possible to put anything you could imagine on screen and have it look real – like, really real.The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, the ape...

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