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    What to Stream: Three Feel-Good Movies From 2016

    2016 has been one of the most turmoil-filled years in recent memory. Regardless of how you view recent events in the United States and abroad, you will probably agree these have been trying times. That’s why this week we’re suggesting three feel-good movies, all released in 2016, to give you a moment to be happy, dang it. Eddie the Eagle

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    'Eddie the Eagle's' Shared Universe With 'Cool Runnings'

    The 1988 Winter Olympics was a great venue for lovable underdogs who would someday have their own movies. The new feel-good sports film Eddie the Eagle, about a real-life Brit named Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton) who was determined to compete in the Olympics without any discernible athletic gifts, and who ultimately ends up ski-jumping at the ‘88 games in Vancouver. The connection wasn’t lost on Eagle’s filmmakers, who place a quick but inspired shout-out to the island bobsledders (pl

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    'Eddie the Eagle' Surprises at Sundance, Where Hugh Jackman Endorses Taron Egerton for Han Solo Role

    Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards is not a household name in the U.S. — and frankly, said Hugh Jackman, that’s the reason why a biopic about the British Olympian was kicking around Hollywood for 15 years before it got made. Jackman and friends are hoping that changes with the inspirational new sports drama Eddie the Eagle, which premiered to cheers last night as the surprise, unofficial screening at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Kingsman breakout Taron Egerton as Edwards, who, despite his

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    Hugh Jackman on Ryan Reynolds's Dis: Wolverine Would Beat Deadpool '100 Percent'

    Deadpool has been incessantly shooting off his trap — as Deadpool is wont to do — over the past few weeks in the ramp up to his titular movie, out Feb. 12. Among the most notable targets of Ryan Reynolds’s mouthy alter ego: Wolverine. Specifically, the 2009 movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where the Marvel mercernary made his first big-screen appearance alongside Hugh Jackman’s hirsute hero.