First Look – One Piece (Season 2)
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Previously-reviewed films being released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K this week include Poseidon, World Trade Center, How to Train Your Dragon, and Straight Outta Compton.
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Weapons
- Title: Weapons
- IMDb: link
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
- Title: She Rides Shotgun
- IMDb: link
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
- Title: Sketch
- IMDb: link
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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