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MARY POPPINS RETURNS (2019)
Starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Emily Mortimer, Ben Whishaw, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Walters and Pixie Davies. Directed by Rob Marshall.

In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.

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THE POST (2018)
Starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Pat Healy, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Paulson. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

In June 1971 The New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation’s major newspapers took a brave stand for freedom of speech and reported on the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four U.S. Presidents. At the time, the Post’s Katharine Graham was still finding her footing as the country’s first female newspaper publisher, and Ben Bradlee, the paper’s volatile, driven editor, was trying to enhance the stature of the struggling, local paper. Together, the two formed an unlikely team, as they were forced to come together and make the bold decision to support The New York Times and fight the Nixon Administration’s unprecedented attempt to restrict the first amendment.

REVIEWS The Post - Streep and Spielberg strike gold in portrait of a complex woman

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (2016)
Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg and Rebecca Ferguson. Directed by Stephen Frears.

The true story of a New York heiress and socialite who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming an opera singer. The voice Florence Foster Jenkins heard in her head was beautiful, but to everyone else, it was hilariously awful. Her manager and dearest friend, St Clair Bayfield, an aristocratic English actor, was determined to protect his beloved from the truth. But when Florence decided to give a public concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944, he knew it was only a matter of time before her beautiful dream would be shattered.

SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson and Romola Garai. Directed by Sarah Gavron.

the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality - their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives.

REVIEWS Suffragette - Standing on the shoulders of heroes

RICKI AND THE FLASH (2015)
Starring Meryl Streep, Rick Springfield, Kevin Kline and Mamie Gummer. Directed by Jonathan Demme.

A funny and touching story of a rock n’ roll-loving woman who chased her tattered dream at the price of her family, but gets a last chance to, perhaps, make things right.

REVIEWS Ricki And The Flash - Flash in the pan

THE HOMESMAN (2015)
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, William Fitchner, Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto and Sonja Richter. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones.

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realises just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.

REVIEWS The Homesman - Women in crisis in the Old West

INTO THE WOODS (2015)
Starring Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Chris Pine, Daniel Huttlestone, Lilla Crawford and MacKenzie Mauzy. Directed by Rob Marshall.

modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel - all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them.

REVIEWS Into The Woods - Not your average fairytale

THE GIVER (2014)
Starring Brenton Thwaites, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Alexander SkarsgÅrd, Taylor Swift and Katie Holmes. Directed by Phillip Noyce.

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

REVIEWS The Giver - Classic novel just another dystopian drama on film

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (2014)
Starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis and Abigail Breslin. Directed by John Wells.

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

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