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Mary Poppins Returns
The world’s most famous magical nanny returns to help the Banks family once again. Now all grown up, Michael Banks (Whishaw) has three kids of his own, but with his wife deceased, his sister Jane (Mortimer) helps him raise his three children. When he falls behind on loan payments, the bank threatens to repossess the family home, and the stress of the situation leads Michael to overlook how his children are feeling, just as his own father once did to him and Jane. When a blustery day brings back Mary Poppins (Blunt), the nanny who looked after him and Jane when they were children, the family finds themselves swept up in magical moments. Director: Rob Marshall. Stars: Emily Blunt, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Lin-manuel Miranda. 2018. 130 min. Fantasy.
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
After teenager Miles Morales is bitten by a radioactive spider, he finds himself developing spiderlike abilities. He stumbles across a particle accelerator funded by the villainous Kingpin, and after a major battle, he witnesses the death of Spider-man. Miles takes the superhero’s mantle upon himself and learns that the accelerator pulled other spiderheroes from different universes into his own. Despite his inexperience, Miles teams up with the other heroes to stop the destructive experiments of a mad scientist and help them find a way home before they become Kingpin’s next victims.
Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman. Stars: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry. 2018. 117 min. Animation.