2022: “Top Gun: Maverick”

“It’s the first time in forever I feel love and warmth,” he said.Shem Tov was taken to meet his parents —

had kept his bedroom as he left it, with instructions that nobody should touch or clean it until he came home and did it himself.The untouched bedroom of hostage Omer Shem-Tov is seen in Herzliya, Israel, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)The untouched bedroom of hostage Omer Shem-Tov is seen in Herzliya, Israel, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

“I see my mom and my dad and I run up to them, and I hug them,” Shem Tov said. “I waited for this moment for so long. I imagined it for so long. This is what I want every hostage to experience.”Shem Tov has embraced the role of advocating for those still hostage — something his parents were already doing — telling anyone who listens they must be brought home.

“It’s really fulfilling. I love what I am doing but don’t like the cause,” he said. “I wish they were all here today. I hope it will be soon and in good circumstances.”

And while he is reluctant to talk politics, Shem Tov worries Israel’sopening at the same time.

“What deranged maniac would create something like this?” asks the head of the Galactic Federation about Stitch but they could easily refer to whoever at Disney green-lit this lazy cash grab that assumes we won’t remember the original, wastes the comic zip of Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen and product-places Capri Sun.Screenwriters Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes are credited with the new story but it’s built on the work of the original’s Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, right down to swiping whole chunks of dialogue, the same structure and same characters.

Disney’s live-action remakes/re-imaginings have been a staple for more than a decade, with titles raided again including “The Little Mermaid,”“The Jungle Book,” “Mulan,” “Dumbo,” “Pinocchio” and