Win a Norm of the North activity book with word search, maze, scrambled letters, and connect the dots puzzles. Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Norm in the subject line and tell me your favorite arctic animal. Don’t forget your address! (U.S. addresses only). I’ll pick a winner at random on January 18, 2016. …

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David Bowie has died of cancer at age 69.  So we did not lost one of the singular artists of the 20th century — we lost a dozen.  Bowie was a musician, a performance artist, and an actor whose constant re-invention gave us characters like the Thin White Duke and Ziggy Stardust, as well as …

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Michael Shannon plays the father of a boy with special powers in “Midnight Special,” from writer/director Jeff Nichols (“Take Shelter”). The cast includes Adam Driver (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”), Kirsten Dunst (“Fargo” TV series), Sam Shepard (“August: Osage County”), and Joel Edgerton (“The Gift”).

Bring back Tina and Amy! Ricky Gervais was so intent on being outrageous he forgot to be funny for much of the 2016 Golden Globes broadcast. A running gag about being bored was just, well, boring. And the insults he swapped with Mel Gibson were tasteless. It’s fine to make fun of the Hollywood Foreign …

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