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Talking Pictures: The Eagle Has Landed!

Is it a bird?  Is it a plane?  No, it’s Eddie The Eagle, who soars into town on the latest edition of Talking Pictures. London Mums’ resident film critic, Freda Cooper, takes a look at the film and its stars, Taron Edgerton and Hugh Jackman squeeze into The Big Interview hot seat.  Also in cinemas is Ran, the re-working of King Lear from Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa, and…
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Film review: Eddie The Eagle

At the 1988 Winter Olympics, Britain found a new sporting hero. He was the one-man ski jumping team, he’d qualified for the competition by the skin of his teeth and he didn’t win a medal. In fact, he was permanently in last place. But everybody came under the energetic spell of Eddie Edwards. Nearly 30 years later, he’s inspired a big screen version of his story, which flies into cinemas on…
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