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Something to Watch: Disc’s

The Western winner this week is Passengers, an excellent character driven romantic drama set against the backdrop of deep space during an era of interstellar expansion. Solace has a psychic doctor assisting a detective in tracking down a serial killer. The only problem is the serial killer is a psychic too, and a much better one than the doctor working with the FBI. It has a world class cast and an interesting trailer, the critical reviews indicate the movie has some serious flaws but the chemistry between the cast makes it work despite them.

In Anime, K: Missing Kings is the movie bridge between season 1 and season 2; there are 7 kings in the world, each with their own special power which they can grant in greater or lesser degrees to their followers. And there is war between the secret kings, with the potential to overturn the mundane world entirely. Ben To: The Complete Series is being released in a S.A.V.E. edition, with a totally different kind of war. In grocery stores across Japan, the battle for half-priced Bento boxes has become fierce.

GHOST IN THE SHELL New TRAILER

Another trailer for the live action GHOST IN THE SHELL, and it looks even better with each new iteration, certainly from a visual perspective. Of course, at this point we know they have made a few changes with her backstory beyond just dropping her name, Motoko Kusanagi, and just using her former rank to identify her. But I am not going to worry about that. I will judge the movie on its own merits when I see it for myself. It is launching at the end of this month, and you can believe I will be in the theater on March 31st.

Something to Do: Movies

This weeks must see film is obviously Logan, the third and final stand-alone Wolverine film starring Hugh Jackman, and maybe Patrick Stewart. I will definitely be in the theater for that one, but there is an additional option: Before I Fall. That one is a teen groundhog day with one girl trying to get through the day alive, unlike the last multiple times she went through it.

Something to Watch: Discs

The winner this week has to be Marvel’s Doctor Strange, a real powerhouse of a movie, and one of my favorites for 2016. In Anime, every title listed this time is the complete series, so you won’t be missing anything with any of these. Actually, I Am is about a boy who can’t keep a secret, so he confesses his love to a girl… who tells him a secret about herself: she’s a Vampire. If he leaks this secret to anyone, she will be forced to leave school, but it seems everyone at that school has a secret, and he begins to learn them all. In Amagi Brilliant Park there are scantily clad fairies, giant mice and sniper-trained sheep occupying a run down amusement park that really is a magic kingdom in need of rescuing. The Betrayal Knows My Name is a story of love, reincarnation, and constantly mounting danger, with a twist. There are two titles this week that I thought were already both released, but I can’t find evidence to prove it. Red Data Girl is being released in a S.A.V.E. edition, so you can pick up the entire series for under $20. The classic Scrapped Princess is also coming out on disc as a complete series; I thought it had done that a decade ago, but all the references I can find are for single volumes with 4 episodes each, no collection.