Paradise Alley- Three
Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to
help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional
skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager. I have never seen this and I am not sure why,
I have copy collecting dust somewhere. I
have already received this for Shout Factory and this is from their Select line
so it should really sparkle. Looking
forward to spinning this soon.
Justice League vs The Fatal Five-
The Justice League battles the Fatal Five, (Tharok, Emerald Empress, Validus,
Mano and the Persuader). Based on the characters created by Jim Shooter. This is
not bad for an animated DC film and that is probably just because I am not familiar
with these newer characters.
Glass- Security guard David Dunn
uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man
who has twenty-four personalities. I
really need to watch Unbreakable again before spinning this sequel to
Split. I like it when we get shared
universe movies and then end of Split was quite a surprise.
Hard Ticket to Hawaii- In
Molokai, two undercover drug enforcement agents are after a vicious drug
kingpin, but on the way, they will also have to deal with a contaminated giant
python. If you like cheesy action movies
with boobs then this is for you. This
movie is all over the place and that is what makes it so great and I love the
scene where our main characters have to go to the hot tub because they think
better there. Priceless.
Dragged Across Concrete- Once two
overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the
criminal underworld to get their proper compensation. Director S. Craig Zahler
has made two masterpieces so far in Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99
and does not give a crap about your politics and gives us some right-wing
action straight from the 80s. Mel Gibson
and Vince Vaughn look perfect together as partners and I cannot wait to give
this a look see. I got my copy today.
Tarantula- A spider escapes from
an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to
tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants. I have been needing this to complete my Clint
Eastwood collection.
Police Story- A virtuous Hong
Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after
frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.
These are great action movies and I know I have cheap DVD copies of these
so I am delighted that Jackie Chan is finally getting the Criterion treatment
on blu ray. I had to specify blu ray
there because Chan did get a Criterion laserdisc release of SuperCop back in
the day.
