MOVIES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND
‘STAR WARS - BAD BATCH’
The Bad Batch is an American animated series created by Dave Filoni for Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, serving as a sequel to Star Wars: The Clone Wars (20082020). The series is produced by Lucasfilm Animation, with Jennifer Corbett as head writer and Brad Rau as supervising director. It was officially ordered by Disney+ in July 2020 as a spin-off from The Clone Wars’ final season, with Filoni, Corbett and Rau attached. Dee Bradley Baker voices the members of the Bad Batch, a squad of elite clone troopers with genetic mutations that enabled them to resist the mass-murder initiative with which Emperor Palpatine eliminated most of the Jedi Order, relegating them to the status of fugitives of the Galactic Empire, who take on daring mercenary missions in the aftermath of the Clone Wars. The first season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch premiered on May 4, 2021, and ran for 16 episodes until August 13. A second season, also consisting of 16 episodes, premiered on January 4, 2023, and concluded on March 29. A third and final season premiered on February 21, 2024, and is set to run for 15 episodes until May 1.
‘JERICHO RIDGE’
Jericho Ridge is a 2023 British survival thriller film written and directed by Will Gilbey (in his directorial debut). It stars Nikki Amuka-Bird alongside Michael Socha, Zack Morris and Solly McLeod. Trapped without support, a small town cop finds her remote Sheriff’s Office being targeted by a drug cartel in northern Washington State. ‘THE FALL GUY’
After leaving the business one year earlier, battle-scarred stuntman Colt Seavers springs back into action when the star of a big studio movie suddenly disappears. As the mystery surrounding the missing actor deepens, Colt soon finds himself ensnared in a sinister plot that pushes him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt.Colt Seavers, a battered and past-his-prime action choreographer, finds himself working on a film set with Tom Ryder, a famous actor for whom he had doubled long ago. When Tom goes missing and the film, which is being directed by debutant Jody Moreno (Colt’s ex-girlfriend), is in danger of being shut down, Colt volunteers to find Tom and save Jody’s debut film. ‘GHOSTBUSTERS’
Frozen Empire is an upcoming American supernatural comedy film directed by Gil Kenan, who co-wrote it with Jason Reitman. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and the fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise. The film stars Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Celeste O’Connor, and Logan Kim reprising their roles from Afterlife, alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton reprising their characters from the earlier films, while Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt also join the cast. In the film, years after averting a dimensional cross rip in Summerville, Oklahoma, the veteran Ghostbusters must join forces with their new recruits to save the world in New York City from a powerful death-chilling adversary.