When a devastating event kills his brother Tadashi and lands his robot technology in the hands of a villain, Hiro Hamada upgrades his brother’s health companion robot Baymax and works with his talented friends to transform into a team of superheroes and save the city.

• Big Hero 6 (2014) - IMDb

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The Wachowskis have made one of the most original movies in ages, a melodramatic space opera, about a (female!) chosen one who discovers she’s a queen. Also, something about bees.

• Jupiter Ascending (2015) - IMDb
• Abraxas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Late last year we saw a movie we’d been anticipating for some time: a remake of the musical Annie starring Quevenzhané Wallis. While Wallis is on point, the end result was something of a film by committee.

• Annie (2014) - IMDb
• Annie (TV Movie 1999) - IMDb
• Annie (1982) - IMDb
• Annie (1982) - Easy Street - YouTube
• The Annlympics: Power-Ranking the Casts of All Three 'Annie' Adaptations Against Each Other - The Wire

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We finally see Selma

• Selma (2014) - IMDb
• The Rise Of The Black British Actor In America - BuzzFeed News
• Watching 'Selma' with 103-year-old matriarch of the movement - CNN.com
• Historian questions accuracy of 'Selma' - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
• John Lewis tells his truth about 'Selma' - LA Times
• The movie ‘Selma’ has a glaring flaw - The Washington Post
• ‘Selma’ sets off a controversy amid Oscar buzz - The Washington Post
• Maureen Dowd’s clueless white gaze: What’s really behind the “Selma” backlash - Salon.com
• Selma Director Ava DuVernay: “I Wasn’t Interested in Making a White-Savior Movie” | The Mary Sue
• Inaccuracies in Oscar movies other than Selma. | SLTA___
• Why the Oscars’ Omission of ‘Selma’ Matters - NYTimes.com

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Alan Turing was one of Britain’s greatest mathematicians, a war hero and the father of modern computing, but was driven to suicide by the government he served. The Imitation Game employs some fine actors to honour his story.

• The Imitation Game (2014) - IMDb
• Bletchley Park ‘girls’ break code of secrecy for book launch | UK news | The Guardian
• Women Code Breakers: Forgotten by History - IEEE - The Institute
• Wartime secrets of Bletchley Park's female codebreakers revealed | Daily Mail Online
• Could you have been a codebreaker at Bletchley Park? - Telegraph
• IBM and the Holocaust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Joan Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Comeback character actor Michael Keaton stars in a movie about actors. Academy loses its shit.

• Birdman (2014) - IMDb

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Foxcatcher is nominated for five Oscars. We disagree with the Academy. Vehemently.

• Foxcatcher (2014) - IMDb
• Foxcatcher: Watch the real John du Pont's creepy self-tribute video - News - Films - The Independent
• Schultz Suddenly Enraged At Foxcatcher and Miller Over Homoerotic Undercurrents - Hollywood Elsewhere
• ‘Foxcatcher’ Wrestler Mark Schultz Slams Movie, Director: ‘I Hate Bennett Miller’ | Variety

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It’s a children’s movie, so Mel and Katie ask the important questions: is this meant to be the 70s? do bears s%#t in the woods? is marmalade still a thing? Paddington is charming and aggressively whimsical, and that’s probably a good thing.

• Paddington (2014) - IMDb

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Disney and Rob Marshall adapt the dark Sondheim musical, with Chris Pine, Anna Kendrick and Meryl Streep and a talented cast. The Brothers Grimm fairy tales Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel intertwine with the story of a childless baker and his wife and the witch who cursed them.

• Does Into the Woods Punish a Wife for Adultery and Not a Husband? - Los Angeles | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly
• Get Me out of this Forest!: A Feminist Critique of Into the Woods
• Streep sings Sondheim, and finds her voice - The Washington Post
• Sondheim Reveals Plot Changes for Disney Into the Woods Film - Playbill.com
• Gender Preferences for Children in Europe: Empirical Results from 17 FFS Countries
• Sex selection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Pastoral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Once Upon a Time - The New Yorker
• Into the Woods (2014) - IMDb

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Katie and Mel do what they were born to: talk for nearly 50 minutes about the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. No distractions, no going off-topic, very little pausing for breath. Some pausing for wine.

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) - IMDb

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