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New Releases
Yeah, I am still here. I am working from home and living the good life and the new pup Rocky is doing great. Covid is getting worse around here so we have battened down the hatches here and only go out when necessary until things get normal again. What ever that will be. Since movie studios are still shut down there is not going to be many new releases coming out on blu for awhile so let's look at some of the titles that have come out recently and hope good catalog titles are on the way.
Invisible Man- When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and
leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of
coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by
someone nobody can see. I glad to see
Universal hand this off to Blumhouse because Universal’s version of The Mummy
with Tom Cruise just about buried the whole Universal Monsters franchise and
Blumhouse know what the fans want and does not go overboard on their
budgets. I have been watching a ton of
stuff but I still have got around to this one yet.
Escape
from LA- Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States
government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an
autonomous island where undesirables are deported. When I saw this movie was announced in
Fangoria back in the day I was so excited that Carpenter was making a sequel to
one of my favorite movies. I was waiting
for this to come out just as much as an Eastwood or Stallone flick back
then. I remember going on opening night
with some friends and when it was over, I was less then thrilled. It was practically a remake with a different setting
and the special effects were awful. I eventually have come around on this movie
because it is Carpenter and Russell together again and it looks like for the
last time. Besides I love Russell’s
Snake Plissken because remember, he is playing Eastwood here. It was not until just recently I read in an
interview that Paramount cut the budget on the movie right before shooting starting. It appears the studio was hoping Carpenter
and Russell would take a pay cut but they stuck to their guns and the movie had
to suffer somewhere and that is why the special effects are so bad. The score by Carpenter and Shirley Walker is
awesome with its Western theme. I do appreciate
this movie more now and I am glad Scream Factory put this out even though it is
a little light on the special features. The
name is Plissken.
Atlantic
City- In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of
a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money,
drugs and danger. This is one of those movies I have heard about but has been
out of print for a very long time. I am
very glad some of these old movies get blu releases because you sure cannot
find them streaming anywhere.
Bad
Boys for Life- Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett must face
off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak vengeful havoc on
their city. The first two movies we a
lot of fun and this one is too. What
took them so long to make this? Oh yeah,
Will Smith keeps chasing an Oscar.
Narrow
Margin- A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a
woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder. Anytime a Gene Hackman movie gets a blu
release it makes me this the guy that much more. This is a great action thriller that takes
place on a train and is very good.
Highly recommended.
Universal Collection Volume 5- I
love that Scream Factory has been putting these out. I only have a couple of these so I need to
get caught up.
Hills
Run Red- A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that
mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from
the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for
his art. I remember this being a solid
horror movie and I need to upgrade from my burned copy I have of this
title. Nice job again from Scream
Factory, over six hours of special features on this baby for a 81 minute
movie. Bravo!
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