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Weapons

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  • Title: Weapons
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It will be interesting to see if American audiences will be patient enough for the slow burn of writer/director Zach Cregger‘s Weapons which takes place one month after all but one student from an elementary classroom each leave their homes at exactly 2:17am one morning and disappear into the night. Presented in a series of vignettes highlighting different characters, some of which overlap more than others, the film digs into the trauma and fear the kids’ disappearance has caused before the movie, eventually, reveals the truth behind events. And, if you are patient enough to wait for it, Weapons delivers one of the most memorable climactic sequences in recent memory.

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She Rides Shotgun

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  • Title: She Rides Shotgun
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Adapted from the novel of the same name, She Rides Shotgun opens with Polly Huff (Ana Sophia Heger) being picked up from school not by her mother or stepfather but her biological father Nate (Taron Egerton) who was released from prison that morning. And he’s had something of a day. In a choice that pays off beautifully, we don’t learn anything before Polly does. She’s a smart enough girl to know something is wrong with Nate showing up in a hotwired car but also scared enough to not push the issue with the most dangerous man in her world.

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Sketch

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  • Title: Sketch
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In what feels like a special extra-sized Goosebumps story, writer/director Seth Worley expands on his own short film to deliver a tale of a child’s grief brought to life in vibrant color. Following the death of his wife, Taylor Wyatt (Tony Hale) struggles with raising his two children alone. While Jack (Kue Lawrence) buries his grief like his father, his sister Amber (Bianca Belle) puts her dark thoughts into drawings of monsters in her private notebook allowing her to release her grief on to the page rather than hold it inside. However, when her notebook falls into a magical pool (don’t you just hate it when that happens?), and those creatures come to life, the entire town is attacked by bizarre monsters from a young girl’s imagination created from marker, ink, graphite, and chalk.

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The Naked Gun

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  • Title: The Naked Gun (2025)
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It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a new Naked Gun movie. The failed 80s TV-show turned successful movie franchise in the late 80s and early 90s gets a refresh with Liam Neeson stepping in as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen‘s character. Like his namesake, Frank is a talented, if problematic, detective for Police Squad. Playing on Neeson’s history with B-move action-thrillers, he slides right into the straight man role of the film in what turns out to be some rather inspired casting.

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Oh, Hi!

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  • Title: Oh, Hi!
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Never tell a girl you aren’t serious about the relationship while chained to the bed. Taking place on the first out-of-town trip of Iris (Molly Gordon, who also co-wrote the film) and Isaac (Logan Lerman), four months into their dating, a basic misunderstanding between the two comes to light after a night of kinky sex. Thanks to some bad advice, and some poor Internet research, and fueled by a desperation to prove he doesn’t know what he actually wants, Iris refuses to uncuff Isaac from the bed and attempts to prove that they should stay together. Frustrated and concerned what else an increasingly manic Iris might do, especially after an offhand comment about wanting to stab him, Isaac initially plays along until it becomes obvious that Iris has no intention of letting him go.

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