Wednesday, August 19, 2015

New Release Tuesday

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.  This murder mystery is a classic from director Brian De Palma who gives many nods to Hitchcock in this movie.  This stars the very beautiful duo of Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen along with Michael Caine.  This has been issued on blu before but Criterion has done a lot of De Palma’s work in the past and has finally gotten around to this title and it should be worth the upgrade.  Highy recommended.

The Joker is aided in his Halloween quest to render modern technology useless and take over Gotham City by Solomon Grundy, Silver Banshee, Clayface and Scarecrow.  Warner Brothers continues its wide variety of DC Super hero projects as this one is aimed at the kiddies and even has a line of toys.  But hey, it’s Batman!

An Indian warrior called Navajo Joe seeks revenge on a gang of sadistic outlaws who has massacred the people of his tribe.  This was Burt’s first movie as the star and it is a Spaghetti Western so I have always considered this his ‘Fistful of Dollars’ and even the music is by Ennio Morricone.

A young boy is arrested by the U.S. Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.  I remember this movie having really cool computer devices like modems and such.  From the greatness that is Shout Factory.




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