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My Mother’s Wedding

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  • Title: My Mother’s Wedding
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Released without much fanfare, I can’t remember seeing a single trailer for this film (which is saying something in this day and age), the directorial debut of Kristin Scott Thomas (who also co-wrote the script) stars Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, and Emily Beecham as the grown daughters who return home for their mother’s (Kristin Scott Thomas) wedding. While all three of the daughters have their own relationship issues, Johansson gets the biggest role here that ties into both her career in the Royal Navy and memories of the pair of lost fathers the girls suffered (both who died in the line of duty when they were children) which is shown through some simple, but effective, animation. 

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The Accountant 2

/ / Home Video
  • Title: The Accountant 2
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Pretty much the entire cast from The Accountant returns for its sequel with the notable absence of Anna Kendrick. Following the death of her mentor Ray King (J.K. Simmons), Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) enlists the help of Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) who pulls in his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) making the sequel more of an odd couple buddy action-comedy. The mystery involving the death of Ray is a bit of a convoluted mess involving an amnesiac killing machine (Daniella Pineda) and a family fleeing El Salvador that eventually our protagonists will unwind.

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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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Nobody

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Nobody
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Falling into the same pattern of films such as First Blood, John Wick, The Equalizer, and Taken, Nobody offers the same advice that you should be very careful with who you pick a fight with. Bob Odenkirk stars an unassuming middle-aged family man who is woken out of his slumber by a break-in. Allowing the robbers to make off with a limited amount of cash, which only makes friends and neighbors think less of him, Hutch hits a breaking point that isn’t satisfied by tracking down the thieves. However, he is mollified by beating up a gang of thugs on-board his regular bus route that leads to an entirely new set of problems. Hutch’s wild night triggers a battle with Russian mobsters reveals his past as a covert agent working as an auditor and eliminating threats for the United States Government when no other outcomes were available.

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Red Sonja: Noir #1

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Calling this one-shot Noir is a bit of a stretch, although Red Sonja: Noir #1 does include a couple elements of the genre (although it’s sadly not in black-and-white). Introduced as a one-off story in which Red Sonja‘s short-term partnership with the brigand Tasmin comes to a close when he’s felled while accepting a job from a femme fatale named Shauna who gives Sonja a sob story, none of which is true. 

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