Movie Review Slate
Blu-rays – $5 A Day (Christopher Walken, Amanda Peet, Sharon Stone), Abandoned (Brittany Murphy’s Final Movie), After. Life (Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci), Beatdown (Bobby Lashley, Eric Balfour, Danny Trejo), Brooklyn’s Finest (Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle), Bull Durham (Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, , The Diplomat, Escape From New York (John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence), Kalifornia (Brad Pitt, David Duchovney, Juliette Lewis), Lock Up (Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore), The Man With No Name Trilogy (Clint Eastwood), Mother, The New Daughter (Kevin Costner), Puppet Master, Puppet Master : Axis Of Evil, Rambo: The Complete Collector’s Set (Sylvester Stallone), Someone’s Knocking At The Door, The Warlords (Jet Li)
DVDs – Acceptance, Castle Freak, Deadly End, Helen (Ashley Judd), Thief Undercover, Under The Mountain (Sam Neil)
Some of these are older titles still having to be viewed/reviewed due to lack of time because of my mom’s health. There are some other titles I can’t recall offhand, but will post later in an edit.
Movie Review Slate
I just finished writing my review for the Showgirls 15th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray/DVD and will be posting that review soon on Movie-Vault.com. Past movies I still have to review are The Eclipse Blu-ray, Someone’s Knocking At The Door Blu-ray, The Warlords Blu-ray, The Man With No Name Trilogy (Clint Eastwood Westerns) Blu-ray.
Just recieved the following batch of movies to review – Hot Tub Time Machine (John Cusack) Blu-ray, Caught In The Crossfire Blu-ray, Ladybugs (Rodney Dangerfield) Blu-ray, Lock Up (Stallone) Blu-ray, Acceptance (Joan Cusack) DVD, Rambo The Complete Collector’s Set Blu-ray (First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, Rambo).
Movie Review Slate
Currently I just finished and posted my latest review (Avatar DVD & Blu-ray) over at Movie-Vault.com. Next up is the Steven Seagal classically comical Marked For Death Blu-ray, Elisabeth Shue & Thomas Hayden Church in Don McKay Blu-ray, Run, Bitch Run! An awesome Grindhouse flick (DVD), Someone’s Knocking At The Door Blu-ray, Eyeborgs Blu-ray, Showgirls 15th Anniversary Sinsational Edition DVD & Blu-ray, Mel Gibson’s latest – Edge Of Darknesss (DVD)
Current Viewing/Reviewing List
Here’s my batch of movies (all Blu-ray unless otherwise noted) I will be working on for the foreseeable future. Batman Begins (currently viewing/reviewing), Don McKay (Thomas Hayden Church & Elisabeth Shue), From Paris With Love (John Travolta), Someone’s Knocking At The Door, Run Bitch Run! (DVD), Avatar, The Edge (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin). Marked For Death (Steven Seagal), Robin Hood : Men In Tights (Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis). I figure on knocking out a movie a day so stick with me and tell your friends! It should be a wild ride.
Featured Blu-ray releases 6/1/2010
About Last Night/St Elmo's Absolute Power
Air Force One/In The Line Of Fire
Alice In Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland 3-Disc Set
Bad Boys
Band Of Brother w/The Pacific Sampler
Bram Stoker's Dracula/The Grudge
Clint Eastwood Collection
Crossing Over
Essential Eastwood: Collector's Edition
Groundhog Day/Hitch
Heartbreak Ridge
I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Silent Hill/Ultraviolet
Someone's Knocking At The Door
Space Cowboys
The Enforcer/Sudden Impact
The Gauntlet
The Stranger
The Wolfman
War Of The Worlds
Wild Things: Foursome
Joe’s Top Picks (& why you should buy!) –
1 – Band Of Brothers (Best war miniseries ever! Must-own for war movie fans, Speilberg & Tom Hanks fans and anyone with any sense. Buy It!…….Now!)
2 – The Enforcer/Sudden Impact (Sudden Impact = Dirty Harry at his best! Must-own)
3 – Clint Eastwood Collection 1968-2008 (Absolute Power, Dirty Harry, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, The Rookie, Unforgiven shall I go on???)
4 – Essential Eastwood Director’s Collection (Letters from Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Unforgiven cheaper than the above by nearly half the price and some damn fine titles!)
5 – Absolute Power (A very underestimated Eastwood flick. Eastwood+Hackman+Ed Harris=I’m so there! Buy this!)
6 – Bad Boys – (As much as I rag on Michael Bay this here is a fun movie. Worthy of a buy)
7 – The Rookie (What’s not to love? Eastwood & Charlie Sheen shine here, another underappreciated Eastwood flick that should be in your collection)
8 – Air Force One/In The Line Of Fire (These are here mostly for In The Line Of Fire an EXCELLENT Eastwood flick, Air Force One is good but more of a throw-in) and in a tie – Bram Stoker’s Dracula/The Grudge (This is a nice pairing of similar genre movies. A good pairing, nice price. I’d get it)
9 – I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (I love the first one, as much as I loved that I HATED the sequel. Still with the pairing of the two at about the price you’d pay for the original alone, why not buy this?)
10 – Groundhog Day/Hitch – (The pairing of these two movies is what knocks this down to the last spot. Love Groundhog Day and Murray is at his best here. Hitch…well at least Groundhog day is worth buying. Didn’t see Hitch. Don’t want to)
Notable Mentions – War Of The Worlds (Not so much a fan here, but I’ll review it if Amazon sends it and go in with an open mind on my 2nd viewing of it maybe I’ll like it more on the 2nd go-around), Alice In Wonderland (Kiddies will eat this up. I read on Wiki that this drew in over $1,000,000,000+ worldwide up there with Titanic and below Avatar, just not my thing), The Wolfman (Didn’t see it, don’t know anyone who has, but I’ll have to rent it and see, love Anthony Hopkins though), Someone’s Knocking At The Door (looks interesting, but have to give it a rental), The Strangers (Steve Austin might be a far better wrestler, but his acting skills are pretty decent. I haven’t seen this, but I feel if it is anything like The Condemned it will at least be worthy of a rental), Wild Things: Foursome (I only mention this because a girl from my hometown of Reading, PA is in this so I’ll give my shout out here), The Gauntlet (Need to rent this, forget the movie it’s been so long),
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