Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, King Richard, and tick, tick… BOOM!

This week is all about tributes that might get too tangled up with their reverence for the source material or subjects with: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, King Richard, and tick, tick… BOOM!

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From director Jason Reitman and producer Ivan Reitman, comes the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters universe. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

Starring: Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, ​Paul Rudd

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Armed with a clear vision and a brazen 78-page plan, Richard Williams is determined to write his daughters, Venus and Serena, into history. Training on Compton, California’s abandoned tennis courts – rain or shine – the girls are shaped by their father’s unyielding commitment and their mother’s balanced perspective and keen intuition, defying the seemingly insurmountable odds and prevailing expectations laid before them.

Starring: Will Smith, Oracene Williams, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, and Jon Bernthal.

More about tick, tick… BOOM!:

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The film follows Jon (Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere: from his girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City; from his friend Michael, who has moved on from his dream to a life of financial security; amidst an artistic community being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. With the clock ticking, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we ​have?

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Bradley Whitford, Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens.