From the Han Solo files...

It was Hammer Time this past weekend to the tune of 66 million.

Here is the guy that took out Bin Laden. I sure miss him.

Starts Friday!

New Release Tuesday

The weak new release schedule continues today.

Sony's The Green Hornet was supposed to be a big summer movie but was delayed until this year and that is never good news for any movie.  Re-shoots and re-editing can rarely save a bad movie but the word is that this flick is quite descent.  I will give it a rental sometime.

Super Hero Squad Vol. 4- I hate when they release all of these episodes in volumes, what wrong with season sets?  Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and the rest of the Squaddies continue their battle against Dr. Doom and his buddies.

The Office lost boss Michael Scott last week and I hear Jim Carrey will be in the season finale.


Justified wraps up season 2 tomorrow and it looks to be a thriller.  Let's hope Raylan shoots a lot of bad guys.  It will be a long wait for season 3 next year.

The Rangers continue to cling to first place but as of today it is in a tie with the LA Anaheim California Angels.

Sharky's Machine 1981

Burt Reynolds was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 70s and the early 80s and and next to Deliverance Sharky's Machine may be his best performance as an actor and director.  I always thought that this flick was a rejected Dirty Harry screenplay, Clint had put the character to bed in 1977 until his resurrection in 1984, but this was based on a novel of the same name.  The story goes that since Clint ( Every Which Way But Loose) was treading onto Burt's territory of comedy (Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run) that Burt was going to take Dirty Harry to Atlanta.  Burt turned in a fantastic film.

Sharky is an Atlanta cop that is demoted to vice squad after a botched homicide bust and catches onto a case when busting some ladies of the night.  It seems the mob is running a high end prostitute ring and when one of them wants out it it leads to her murder.  Or does it?  Sharky assembles his "Machine" to help the girl and bring down the operation.

Burt assembles a good cast with Charles Durnning, Brian Keith, Bernie Casey, and the great psycho killer Henry Silva in this great cop action movie.  Burt does his finest directing job here and that of course means fantastic stunts as well.

Warner Brothers has produced an awful DVD of this, it is in Full Screen, Full Screen I tell you.  This movie is in desperate need of a proper wide screen, anamorphic release.  Bring it on Warner's!

So who is #1 on the list now?