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Watership Down: family-friendly BBC version risks losing the power of epic original

The Conversation 13 Dec 2018

But the film helped to make the novel (which is surprisingly sophisticated for what is ostensibly a children’s animal story) more accessible to a wider and younger audience, and the film’s imagery still looms large in the British cultural imagination....

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‘Capernaum’ Film Review: Lebanon’s Oscar Entry Unflinchingly Examines Childhood Poverty

The Wrap 13 Dec 2018

He hopes to stop them from having any more neglected children like himself or his beloved sister, Sahar (Cedra Izam), who they sold into an early marriage ... Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” is a brutally honest — sometimes difficult to watch — drama about neglected children....

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Mary Poppins Returns: Damian Lewis walks blue carpet with children Manon, 12, and Gulliver, 11, at London premiere

This is Money 13 Dec 2018

But it was the Mary Poppins Returns film premiere that brought Damien Lewis, 47, to the blue carpet as he arrived to the star-studded event with his children daughter Manon, 12, and son Gulliver, 11 at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday ... Damian's children looked excited to see the ......

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Tale of abandoned infants

The Daily Tribune 13 Dec 2018

Writer-director Liu Jie’s social realist drama Baby, screened last 11 December at the International Film Festival & Awards Macao under New Chinese Cinema, sharply examines the plight of Chinese children who are abandoned because of their disability or medical conditions ... The film is also a study of faith and hope....

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Emily Blunt: I hope Mary Poppins encourages my children to adopt English accents

Irish Independent 13 Dec 2018

I hope Mary Poppins encourages my children to adopt English accents ... Emily Blunt has said she hopes her performance as Mary Poppins inspires her children to adopt English accents. https.//www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/emily-blunt-i-hope-mary-poppins-encourages-my-children-to-adopt-english-accents-37624180.html....

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Mary Poppins Returns wins praise from critics but plot leaves some divided

Belfast Telegraph 13 Dec 2018

The cast of Mary Poppins Returns at the film’s European premiere in London (Ian West/PA) ... Writing for the BBC, Nicholas Barber gave the film four stars ... “A lively, colourful and big-hearted musical, it may lack a spark of originality, but it’s better than most children’s films. It’s just not as good as the children’s film it is trying so hard to be.”....

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'Mary Poppins' return brings world some magic, cast say

The Jakarta Post 13 Dec 2018

Despite cold December weather, the film's picturesque Cherry Tree Lane blossomed outside the Royal Albert Hall venue, with plenty of the blooming plants sprouting up the stairs to a replica of the Banks' house ... The new film is set some 20 years after the first film, with audiences now introduced to Michael Banks' own three children....

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Post 14 Years, This Is How Sharmila Tagore Re-Connected To Amrita Singh

Yahoo Daily News 13 Dec 2018

The married couple got divorced after staying together for many years and having two children ... Post the initial success of Kedarnath, Sharmila made an effort to reach out to Amrita and congratulated her on the success of her daughter’s film ... Whatever I’ve earned from doing ads, stage shows and films is for my children....

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Shah Rukh Khan explains why VFX is the need of the hour in film-making

Bollywood Life 13 Dec 2018

The actor whose upcoming film Zero has lots of VFX says technology is needed to enhance the experience of viewers ... Today, we have some really beautiful looking films on digital ... The actor pinpointed how kids today are used to multiplex experience when children of his times saw films in rather run-down cinema halls....

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Blunt on 'daunting' task of playing Mary Poppins

Newburyport Daily News 13 Dec 2018

She was able to take a year, during which she was “massively” pregnant with her second child, before they started rehearsing and filming to figure out her interpretation of the character with the help of P.L ... Although she held fond memories of Andrews’ performance, she hadn’t revisited it as an adult and decided not to before filming....

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Jason Momoa struggled finding work after Game of Thrones

Ravalli Republic 13 Dec 2018

Momoa also admitted he's still yet to watch himself in 'Aquaman' as he wants to wait to see it with his wife Lisa Bonet and their two children; Lola, 11, and 10-year-old Nakoa-Wolf. The Hawaiian film producer, who takes on the titular DC Comics character in the movie, said....

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'Mary Poppins Returns' Reviews: Critics Share Their Thoughts On Nostalgia-Heavy Sequel

Huffington Post 13 Dec 2018

The Disney film comes more than 50 years after the original film was released, but is set just two decades later, with Jane and Michael Banks now grown up with children of their own ... ‘Mary Poppins Returns’, a sequel set 30 years after the first film, isn’t the ......

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