New Release Tuesday

This is one of those movies fans have been waiting 20 years to see but Sly and Arnold never could get the right project going.  They were close in the 90s as the two of them were to square off against each other in Face-Off but their salary demands pushed that on to two other guys.  This is a fun action movie as Sly stars as a prison escape expert that gets to his toughest assignment yet and needs a little help getting out this time.  Arnold has a great supporting role in this and there is a little more to his character then we are led to believe.  It’s nice to finally have these guys in a full movie together so sit back and enjoy these action legends.

This is the movie that started it all as the late, great Charles Bronson stars as Paul Kersey as a husband and father whose wife is killed by thugs and this leads to him to take justice into his own hands and turn into a vigilante.  Bronson starts out as a liberal who thinks the crime rate is on the rise in New York City because of poverty but a business trip to the  gun totting, old west of Arizona changes his mind.  Bronson comes back and decides to start cleaning up the streets of punks and the crime rate takes a dip in the city and the police department actually roots for him behind closed doors but put are publically on the hunt for him.  This movie gets classified as an action movie now a day because of the sequels but this is a gritty, crime drama with a nasty New York City as an excellent backdrop. Shame on Paramount for not giving us more on the 40^th Anniversary edition as a trailer is the only extra.  I wish they would have licensed this to SHOUT Factory; they would have done a bang up job on this title.   The highest of recommendations. 

2004’s Winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.  This is a re-release with a new remastered picture and some new features so this is a required pick up at The Gauntlet’s.  Eastwood was fantastic both in front and behind the camera and it sucks that Jaime Foxx was so dang good in Ray to take home the trophy that year.  If you are in for a great Eastwood drama with a bit of female boxing it then pick this up.  

Warner Brother’s animation has done some great stuff so far but with producer Bruce Timm going off to other things at Warner’s these features are not starting to suffer a bit.  I will eventually get around to this one.  Let’s hope Timm is off working on a live Justice League movie like Marvel did with Whedon on the Avengers.

In 1985 a Dallas electrician and hustler named Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.  Matthew McConaughey has been on a role of late so this is definitely worth a rental.