Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Dir: Jason Reitman
Cast: Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Logan Kim
Rating 2.5/5

Director Jason Reitman’s supernatural action-comedy is a fairly contemporary addition to the franchise that began with his father’s ( Ivan Reitman) 1984 hit movie. This film stars recently voted sexiest man alive Paul Rudd, popular child actor McKenna Grace and Carrie Coon while Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis ( the original Ghostbusting Trio), and Sigourney Weaver have honorable mentions or cameos befitting their on-screen pop-culture legend status - thus helping turn up the nostalgia.

Jason Reitman terms this vanity exercise as a movie “by a family about a family, ”so it comes as no surprise to see a struggling-to-make-ends-meet single mom Callie(Carrie Coon), with her two kids 15-year-old Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and 12-year-old Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), arriving in a small town, Summerville, in order to wrap-up an inheritance that slowly unveils itself as the connector to the three films prior pre-digital original that established the Ectomobile, the ghost trap, the Neutrona wand, and portable nuclear particle accelerator as instruments of popular lore.