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Episode 30! Stu and Billy are back this week to discuss Jackie ! Jackie  is biographical drama following Jackie Kennedy, when she was still First Lady, and her life in the week after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The film is directed Pablo Larrain ( Neruda , The Club , and  No ), written by Noah Oppenheim ( The Maze Runner and The Divergent Series: Allegiant - Part 1 ) and focuses on Theodore H. White's Life magazine interview with Jackie Kennedy at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The film stars Natalie Portman (Jackie Kennedy), Peter Sarsgaard (Robert F. Kennedy), Greta Gerwig (Nancy Tuckerman), Billy Crudup (Theodore H. White), as well as many other stars. As well as the film, Stu and I discuss what else we've been watching this week, including the new M. Knight Shyamalan film Split , and look over the latest in movie news. As always it would make our day if you could take a couple of minutes to rate and reviews us on i...

With a slightly more gritty look than in the previous film, the mighty Asgardian, Thor returns to the big screen in the very first trailer for Thor: The Dark World. Check it out after the jump!

Marvel's latest step on the journey to The Avengers comes in the guise of Kenneth Branagh's action adventure epic, Thor. Potentially the most anticipated of Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures collaborations manages to bring a lesser known superhero to the fore to create a film with much more soul than your usual cape caper. It's almost impossible to keep track of how this character came to the screen. Thor is the age old Norse god who was first characterised in comic book form in the pages of Marvel Comics' Journey into Mystery #83 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966. He was "modernized" in the pages of a 2007 relaunch by artist Olivier Coipel and writer J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame. Also, it has a real-life knight playing a god! In the film, masterfully directed by Branagh, Thor the Norse god of thunder is a vain, arrogant and headstrong warrior being groomed for the throne by his father, the all-father Odin, before being cast out to Earth i...