New Release Tuesday

 Happy New Year!  I am back after taking some time off.  Have you been to Target or Wal-Mart lately?  They have reduced their inventory of blu rays and DVDs even more and have replaced them with books.  Target is still reliable on new releases, but Wal Mart has been way behind lately, so Mr. Amazon has been bringing most of my stuff.  Anyway, here some of this week's new releases and soon I am going to recap some of the best blu rays that been released recently.  Keep spinning!

Black Adam- Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.  The Rock has worked on this passion project a long time and it looks to have financially missed its mark.  This needed to score some really big bucks to have some sequels and apparently the Rock and his team tried to take control of DC and went around a lot of people to get things done while this WB- Discovery merger was going on and it turned out disastrous.  James Gunn and Peter Safran are in charge of DC now and Black Adam movies are not on the playbook anymore.  This is too bad because it is a good action movie with The Rock playing a good anti-villain.  It was a worthy try and I guess this means we will be getting more Jumanji movies now.  I like the Rock a lot but he is falling back into some bad habits that threatened his early acting career.

Prey for the Devil- A nun prepares to perform an exorcism and comes face to face with a demonic force with mysterious ties to her past.  Ugh, still ripping off The Exorcist?  I will wait for the new Exorcist trilogy instead of this nonsense.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen- An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.  I love me some Criterion releases, but I have to admit and do not hate me.  I have never gotten around to seeing this and I love Terry Gilliam’s work.  This year, promise.

The System- When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.  Tyrese Gibson, Jeremy Piven, and woman beater Terrance Howard?  No thanks, might want to invest in a better casting director next time.  Those three are some of the most well-known jerks in Hollywood.