Anakin Skywalker’s padawan gets her own show as she works with the crew of the Ghost as they investigate an emerging threat to the galaxy. The princess film that contains Walt Disney’s favorite scene of animation gets a 4K update.

AHSOKA

Set after the fall of the Empire, “Star Wars: Ahsoka” follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

Dave Filoni has already described this series as season five of “Rebels.” Ahsoka is one of the most popular characters introduced in the animated series and her live action series is expected to do well with “Star Wars” fans.

CINDERELLA

When Cinderella’s dream of attending the Royal Ball and meeting the Grand Duke is hindered by her cruel stepmother, she gets some astounding help from her Fairy Godmother.

This is one of the most popular films ever made by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Cinderella is a princess almost every little girl knows and her story still resonates today.

EXPLORER: LOST IN THE ARCTIC

Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over the top of the world, when Franklin’s ships vanished without a trace. Now, a team of explorers attempts to solve the mystery by retracing Franklin’s route in search of his long-lost tomb.

VACATION FRIENDS 2

Picking up a few months after the end of “Vacation Friends,” this uproarious sequel finds newly married couple Marcus (Lil Rel Howery) and Emily (Yvonne Orji) inviting their uninhibited besties Ron (John Cena) and Kyla (Meredith Hagner), who are also newly married and have a baby, to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. His reason for traveling there in the first place is to meet with the owners of the resort to bid on a construction contract for a hotel they own in Chicago. But when Kyla’s incarcerated father Reese (Steve Buscemi) is released from San Quentin and shows up at the resort unannounced at the worst possible moment, things get out of control, upending Marcus’ best laid plans and turning the vacation friends’ perfect trip into total chaos.

TRAP JAZZ

Chris Moten, Cassius Jay, and Devon “Stixx” Taylor are three best friends from Atlanta that share one incredible gift — they are all classically trained jazz players working with some of the world’s top Trap and Hip Hop artists. Each of them feels that Jazz is slowly losing its ‘identity’ and their mission is to bring it back to the mainstream through the musical vehicle of Trap. Trap Jazz follows them on an uncertain journey of stepping out of the supportive shadows and into the spotlight. Whether they fail or succeed, this is their chance to give back to the one genre of music that lives inside their being. This is their love letter to Jazz.

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

Charles’s stage fright reaches unimaginable heights, involving a break from reality and multiple baby dolls. Mabel is confronted by a mysterious individual from her past with a pivotal proposal.

JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL

Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell’s attorney, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

And if you are looking for legacy content, check out “Beauty and the Beast.” The 1991 film is the first animated film ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. It’s considered the crowning achievement of Howard Ashman’s career scoring films. It is the second film to feature the combined work of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

Those are my picks. What will you be watching this weekend?

Jeremy Brown

Jeremy has been a big Disney fan since he was a kid growing up during the Disney Renaissance. One day he hopes to go to every Disney Park in the world.

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