New Release Tuesday

This may well be a top five super hero movie already after one viewing in the theater.  This thing plays like a 70s spy/ espionage movie and it even has Robert Redford in it to back that up even further.  And to top all that off Captain America is in this!  I also have to applaud Marvel for finally getting Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury character something to do in one of these flicks.  This is a great flick with great action, smart writing, and a fantastic adversary in the Winter Soldier and some other surprises.  Highly recommended.

A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.  I never saw this.  I have always heard great things about this and have been on the lookout for a cheap DVD copy that was not full screen but when Scream Factory announced this title I decided to wait and watch it in all of it HD glory.  Stars the great Lance Henriksen and was directed by the late great make-up /special effects guru Stan Winston.  It;s from Scream Factory so it will rock!!!

A masked killer stalks four teenagers, responsible for the accidental death of a little girl six years earlier, at their high school's senior prom.  This came out during the apex of horror movies and it is considered not great but not bad either.  If Scream Queen Jaime Lee Curtis was not in it this little movie it would probably not be considered at all.

Paramount’s version of an apology that has both Star Trek reboot movies with all special features included.  When Into Darkness came out the studio whored out different special features all over the place from Target to iTunes, a huge mess that got many of the fans’ attention.  Take notice studios: If we pay for a disc we should get all features available. 

This is a huge surprise today.  That little band from Ireland has been saying they had a new album coming out this year and they shocked the world by releasing it today exclusively on iTunes and for free.  Yep, free.  I am still reviewing it but I am a physical media kind of guy so I am missing the actual disc right now.

New Release Tuesday

It's TV week at Harry's!

This is called the most bad ass show on TV for a reason.  It runs at full throttle and runs that way from the season opening episode to the season finale.  SOA skied very slippery slopes to open the season and incorporated a school shooting that had ripple effects for the whole season along with many deaths.  Jax is the king of the club and his relationships and are crumbling around him so the club really had to band together to overcome the odds.  We lost some really good characters this past season but some of them you really rooted for because they had it coming.  Show creator Kurt Sutter and FX decided this coming season will be the last and if you remember anything from Hamlet it is that there were not many people left at the end.  This should be a great last season which starts September 9.

This season of The Walking Dead was really good as the new show runner actually had writers write good stuff for the show and did not string plot lines along for half a season like his predecessor.  Last season losing the prison would have been spread over 4 episodes, this season it was all wrapped into one action packed episode.  The TWD characters spent half the season spread out but they have been slowly coming together again at a place called Terminus where there is hope and maybe safety.  We also get introduced to some more new characters that are joining Rick and the gang and these guys have a plan.  I really need to watch the finale again so I can get a better look at Terminus and see how they are about to screw with the wrong people.

I am really excited about this release from Warner Archive as the late, great Robert Urich stars as Spenser in this mystery/suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.  Urich was great in this but I also loved Avery Brook as Spenser’s friend Hawk.  

This was a really fun show as Edward Woodward stars as a retired intelligence agent turned private detective helps various threatened clients to equalize the odds.  It is nice to finally get season 2 of this but I was expecting a whole season release the Denzel movie version of this coming out soon.