New Release Tuesday

If you like Westerns then you will love AMC’s Hell on Wheels. I called season 4 of this great show Escape from the Mormons but our hero Cullen Bohannan is far too good of a family man for such an escape.  After a brief stint of living with the Mormons with his new wife and baby Cullen decides it’s time to get back to Hell on Wheels to get the railroad back on track for the race to California. Cullen has a hard time getting his old job back from railroad dictator Durant but after some hard grunt work and some good ideas he earns his way back.  During this time he is noticing his Mormon wife is an outsider among the railroad town and decides she needs to go home with her people.  This is only a sampling of season 4 as there are many more story lines and characters that pass through town.  Highly recommended.

This is a story of macho oil well firefighters and their wives.  The Duke would try something different every once in a while to mix in with all of his Westerns and I remember this one fondly.  This also stars the beautiful Katharine Ross and features stunts by the late, great Hal Needham.

I do not keep up with the NBA anymore and I especially did not follow the Knicks.

Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children and can't escape.  This horror flick was directed by Wes Craven and is a really good time.  Scream Factory brings is this to us so it will look and sound great and will be filled with extra features galore.

A widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist.  This is from the director and writer from the original Saw and is a great, spooky story.  Remember the old ventriloquist horror shows and movies from the 70s?  Those dolls and clowns still creep me out.

New Release Tuesday

The sequel to Divergent in which Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.  I got to admit Divergent was pretty weak so this better blow my socks off or I may not check out the other forthcoming sequels.  Hunger Games this is not.

A guy's regrets over moving in with his girlfriend are compounded when she dies and comes back as a zombie.  I am not gonna bother looking this up but wasn’t there another movie like this recently?  Anyway I don’t care because this one is directed by the great Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) who will certainly give this little horror comedy a lot of heart.  Sadly I do not see a blu ray release of this title.

A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.  This 80s flick is also from the great Joe Dante and think Fantastic Voyage here with a lot more fun mixed in it.  Martin Short plays the hero in this with Dennis Quaid playing the miniaturized pilot inside of him.  Yes, inside of him.  This is a real fun flick and Warner Archive brings it to us on blu ray.

The world's greatest killing machine is three times as deadly when a mutated, three-headed, great white shark threatens a cruise ship. As the shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers fight the deadly predator using anything they can find.  Normally I would call this scenario preposterous but if sharks can fly around in tornadoes this is way more plausible. This stars Hollywood’s hardest working man, Machete himself, Danny Trejo.