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"Spider-Man: No Way Home", "The 355" and "Gunpowder Milkshake": These are the DVDs and Blu-rays of the week.

Since Tom Holland first appeared as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War six years ago, the young Briton has been one of the most important actors of his generation. Since then, the 25-year-old has donned the spider cape five more times. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is Holland's seventh appearance as Peter Parker. And it shouldn't be his last. In any case, producer Amy Pascal can imagine more "Spider-Man" films with Tom Holland, as she recently revealed. Only Holland itself seems to be hesitating. In a "GQ" interview in November, he said: "If I'm still playing Spider-Man at 30, I've done something wrong." But until then it's still a few years ... "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, alongside the spy film "The 355" and the action film "Gunpowder Milkshake".

"Spider-Man: No Way Home" (Release: April 12)
Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third and final installment in the Homecoming trilogy, which began in 2017. At the end of the previous film, Far From Home (2019), the true identity of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) was revealed. In "Spider-Man: No Way Home" Peter wants nothing more than to have the whole world forget his identity again. For this he asks Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help. But Dr. Strange's spell goes awry, and the multiverse spirals out of control, tearing a hole in the world Peter lives in. Through the hole in the multiverse, all those enemies that Spider-Man has already had to deal with in the past slip through. And that's quite a lot - after all, there were various other actors of the spider man before Tom Holland. And so, among others, Electro (Jamie Foxx), Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) and Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) make life difficult for Peter Parker.

Price DVD: around 14 euros

US, 2021, directed by Jon Watts, running time: 143 minutes

The director Uwe Boll made a documentary about the Hanau attack: sloppy, irreverent - and unsuitable for any serious discussion.

The German filmmaker Uwe Boll has made a film about the racist attack in Hanau. A documentary with many reenacted and fictionalized game scenes. The relatives of the victims are appalled, the city of Hanau protested against the project.

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Boll produced the film anyway and Hanau will be released two days before the second anniversary of the assassination as a video-on-demand. It is scheduled to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in early March. The way there is like a foreseeable escalation, at the end of which there is an unbearable product.

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Boll is not the first to deal with violent crimes, behind which state or social structures stand and which are commonly described as "unimaginable". Some filmmakers have already done so. Because you have to deal with these topics, after all, silence is not an option. So the first question is: is a movie a good option?

The director, screenwriter and producer Boll always seems to answer the question with yes. He has not only shot trash and horror films with titles such as Zombie Massacre and House of the Dead, but has also repeatedly dealt with extremely serious issues: the death of the politician Uwe Barschel, the Holocaust, the genocide in Sudan, school shootings and the tunnel war in Vietnam. Every facet of violence interests him. Boll also received praise for Darfur (2009), but many of the films lack depth, they are all striking. And it seemed like a mockery of the victims when, in addition to the historical film Auschwitz, he also created a film that he sees as a parody and in which Nazis experiment on vampires. Some critics regard Boll as the "worst director in the world" and petitions have already been started against him to prevent his films. The early resistance of the relatives and the city is probably due to this. Sensitivity is not one of Boll's characteristics as a filmmaker. But that would be elementary for such a project, as other directors have shown in the past.