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Previously-reviewed films being released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K this week include The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie.
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Lilo & Stitch
- Title: Lilo & Stitch (2025)
- IMDb: link
“This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good.”
Disney’s latest live-action remake gives us a story of friendship and family that would make Dominic Toretto proud. With a few notable exceptions, most in the final act of the film, the new Lilo & Stitch follows the events of the original faithfully starting with the exiled Experiment 626 (Chris Sanders) crashlanding on Earth. The early sequences involving the United Galactic Federation are all CGI, but to limit the amount of effects needed on Earth, outside of the alien “dog” whom Lilo (Maia Kealoha) adopts, we get Dr. Jumba Jookiba (Zach Galifianakis) and Agent Wendy Pleakley (Billy Magnussen) holographically disguised as humans for the majority of the film.
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The Last Rodeo
- Title: The Last Rodeo
- IMDb: link
The Last Rodeo is a film that could only take place in America where a broken healthcare system would force a grandfather into risking his own life to pay for life-saving medical procedure for his grandson (Graham Harvey) which the insurance will not fully cover. While the film focuses on the hero’s journey and bringing former rodeo star Joe Wainright (Neal McDonough) closer together with his daughter (Sarah Jones) and former best friend (Mykelti Williamson), the idea that any of this is necessary is as tragic as the boy’s brain tumor.
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