Tightrope on Blu Ray in June

On June 10 Warner will finally dip back into the Eastwood collection and release this great cop drama.

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

How about some Bronco Billy and Honkeytonk Man now?  And why can we get some original artwork instead of this awful cover above?  Thanks WB.

2014 Oscar Picks

This dude was robbed.

I picked the 2009 Oscars perfect but did not publish those predictions so it really does not count, sorta.  Anyway here are my picks for this year.  This is a difficult race this time as many of these are a tossup but here are some of the biggies:

Best Pic: Gravity

Best Director:  Alfonso Cuaron

Best Actress: Amy Adams

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence

Best Actor: Matthew McConaughy (All right, all right, all right!)

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto

Best Animated Pic: Frozen

Best Cinematography: Gravity

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Best Original Song: Ordinary Love (U2)

Enjoy the show!

Movie Poster Thursday- Westworld

New Release Tuesday

I really enjoyed this THOR sequel as Chris Hemsworth is awesome and the wife and I both have a crush on him.  The movie had the same great balance of action, romance, and comedy as the original and does a really good job of alternating Earth and Asgard.  Tom Hiddleston is a sinister bad guy as THOR’s brother Loki and I look forward to this character having his own movie sometime.  Be sure to sit thru all the credits too as we get hints of Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2.  Scored this steel book at that crummy has been electronics store.

Perhaps the best movie made about space ever made.  This movie starts, sets for about 4 minutes, and then grabs you by the collar and does not let go for the next 80 something minutes.  Isolation can be scary enough but to be alone in space makes it that much more.  I loved the scenes without sound as it makes all the events going on seem kind of like an opera with the soundtrack.  This movie looks stunning, Sandy Bullock is awesome, and the tight direction of this space opera will likely clean up at the Oscars on Sunday and deservedly so, see it.

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.  Bruce Dern has always been a great actor that has always been stereotyped as the heavy or the crazy bad guy.  In the late sixties and early seventies those were about the only parts the guy was being offered so he took some time off and reinvented himself a bit in 1972’s Silent Running.  But still for over 40 years later people cannot forgive him for (spoiler alert) killing John Wayne in the Cowboys.  Looks like a good drama from director Alexander Payne.  (The Descendants, Sideways)

Look for my Oscar picks shortly.

Arnold Works at the Gym

Eye of the Tiger- Dot Matrix Style

Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

Alright, I am feeling better about this now after seeing the trailer. 

Movie Poster Wednesday- MIssionary Man

New Release Tuesday

I know this is the best show on TV I am not watching and I do have the best intentions to get around to this eventually.  Another set to go on the shelf.  

Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.  So it’s Dolph Lundgren versus zombies.  I am a big Lundgren fan and I am all in on this.  

This is a good show that was just getting its wings under it but it appears Cartoon Network has cancelled it so they can put more Teen Titans on the air.  Hopefully this first volume sells well enough so we can get the remaining episodes that have not aired.  So Cartoon Network gets the rights to air DC Nation shows and since then they have cancelled Young Justice, Green Lantern, and now this but they keep the inferior Teen Titans on?   I would like to thank Wal Mart for putting this on the shelf last week.

Scream Factory brings us this cult classic from director Sam Raimi (Evil Dead 2, Spiderman Trilogy) about a brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.  This movie was way ahead of the comic book movie craze and Raimi puts his signature touch on it.  Stars Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand. 

A nice looking double feature from Scream Factory with some early 80s horror cult.  Visiting Hours is a nice little flick that was a Halloween 2 ripoff taking place in a hospital.  Great cover art on this release.