New Release Tuesday

Here is the catch up for the last two weeks.

I liked this a lot but it was a little off compared to the first one for me.  Maybe it was Sly stepping down from directorial duties and I definitely missed Mickey Rourke as Tool in this one.  This is a big time action flick with all the 80s greats and the movie is fun and tries not to be anything else.  There are quite a few old man jokes here and rightfully so because there are a couple of guys here eligible for social security.  Great to see Chuck Norris back on the big screen and hopefully he can be convinced to come back for the confirmed Expendables 3: The War Against Arthritis. 

This is still considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.  Director Michael Cimino was hot off the success of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and The Deer Hunter so he had free reign on this epic turn of the century western.  The budget started at 12 million and ballooned to 44 million and cleared over a whopping 3 million at the box office!  Maybe after this spectacular Criterion blu ray release this flim may get into the black.

Set in a Depression era Virginia a group of bootleggers has to fight off some new law to keep their healthy profits.  I am in on anything with Tom Hardy

Really Will?  You did this instead of Django Unchained?  I might watch this one of these days only for Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin seems to do a nice Jones impression.