Thursday, February 6, 2020

New Release Tuesday

It is slow on the new release front this week but there is one watch worthy title out.  I even ventured out to a physical wall store and to pick this up and gave the Amazon guy the day off.  Or I tried, he delivered Ballers Season 5 a day late.  Let's see what's out this week:


Doctor Sleep- Years following the events of "The Shining," a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.  I have always considered The Shining a good movie but not great like many people do during October when people are picking their favorite horror movies.  It is not scary at all, it’s more psychological to me and would rather watch The Shining or Halloween with a group of buddies?  Case closed.  Everything I have read and heard indicates this was a worthy sequel but the box office was a little soft on this because it is two and a half hours long, way long for a horror movie.  I am still eager to give this a spin and check out the original cut first then go for the three-hour long director’s cut later.




The House that Jack Built- The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.  I am not sure about this one.  The run time on this is two hour and thirty-two minutes.  See movie above about long run times for horror flicks.




Evil Ed- A mild-mannered film editor is assigned to cut a series of infamous slasher films and is driven murderously insane by the miles of extremely violent footage he edits.  This is one of those movies I have always heard of but I think this has been out of print for a while.  Arrow has been killing it lately so this is probably a solid pick up.



Playing with Fire- A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.  Looks John Cena got caught up in the mess The Rock got trapped in there for a bit when did his kiddie movies back in the day.  I think Cena is better than this so hopefully he sticks with action flicks after this job mistake.

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