There is a world where witches rule the northern skies, where ice bears are the bravest of warriors, and where every human is joined with an animal spirt, who is has close to them as their own heart. But this world is dominated by the Magisterium, which seeks to control all humanity and who’s greatest threat is a golden compass,
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A POIGNANT (YET FLAT) HOLLYWOOD REMAKE Hollywood is still fascinated with remakes and it’s a paradoxical thing for major motion picture studios to “bank” on when crafting feature length movies. The idea of reimagining a cinematic narrative and repurposing it for a new modern moviegoing audience is something that seems to work, especially in the profitable eyes of film
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Five year old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty five years later (now Dev Patel), armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary
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A DELIGHTFUL BEAR OF A TALE Paddington Bear. First appearing in 1958 and written Michael Bond, the world has fallen in love with this classic piece of children’s literature, following the misadventures of a polite and loveable anthropomorphized bear in the human world. The books themselves (more than twenty books written by Bond) have sold over thirty million copies worldwide
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