Tuesday, January 10, 2017

New Release Tuesday



A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.  This was a great movie directed by Peter Berg as Marky Mark was good in it and it’s always great to see Kurt Russell on screen.  Jon Malkovich plays the slimy BP oil exec on the oil rig that gave the go ahead to drill and you just want to grab this guy and smack him around some.  Highly recommended.  


As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.  I did not hear much about this but it looked interesting enough to warrant a viewing sometime soon.

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.  This is a movie that the distributer paid way too much for because of some hype and then shamelessly advertised the movie using the black lives matter campaign behind it.  It apparently is awful, tanked at the box office, and the director was an absolute jerk while out doing press for the movie because the guy was accused of rape from years back and that was out there now so that was more of the story then the actual movie stinking at the time this came out.  Keep this movie in the red and do not buy or rent it.


Juvenile lost causes are reformed by a war veteran using survival tactics. Here is a blast from the HBO past.  This is a cool action flick produced by Michael Mann so that is why it has a Miami Vice look to it and it will be dated now.  Directed by Starsky himself, Paul Michael Glaser so give this a spin as it is a lot of fun.



Follows Elliot, a young programmer working as a cyber-security engineer by day, and a vigilante hacker by night.  I have been reading good things about this smart looking TV show.  One of these days maybe…

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