Welcome back to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s a lot of eccentric material coming your way, along with one big budget blockbuster. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!
BIG NEW RELEASES!
The Con is On - A co-artist couple who owe money to a British gangster try to rectify the situation by flying to Las Angeles and plotting an elaborate jewel heist. However, the job turns out to be more complicated than anticipated. This US/UK co-production did not wow the press, failing to earn a positive review. They suggested that the great cast was wasted and complained that the screenplay made the...
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The Equalizer 2 improves on the original
Rating: ««« out of ««««Running Time: 121 minutes
To be frank, I wasn’t a fan of the 2014 update of The Equalizer, at least not in the way it was intended. This reviewer found it to be bloodthirsty, with the central character killing his foes in an almost gleeful manner and in the most violent ways possible (if memory serves, at one point using power tools and horrific booby traps). At the time, I think I joked that the main character should have been re-branded as “The Eliminator” instead. While The Equalizer 2 is still a bit silly and doesn’t offer many surprises story-wise, it does correct several of the original film’s flaws.
This time out, ex-CIA agent Robert...
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for July 20, 2018
Welcome back to another look at highlights coming your way on Blu-ray and DVD. It’s another busy edition with something in just about every genre imaginable. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give to give one of these titles a try!BIG NEW RELEASES!
Andover - A professor perfects human genetic cloning and decides to recreate his late wife. He soon discovers that the copy isn’t quite the same as his lost love and sets about creating more until he can bring her back exactly as she was. This independent romantic comedy doesn’t have a whole lot of reviews yet, but the ones that have popped up haven’t been complimentary. They suggest it...
Skyscraper doesn’t catch fire
Rating: «« out of ««««Running Time: 102 minutes
It’s unfortunate that even when an original movie arrives in theaters, its inspirations are so blatant that it hardly feels like anything new or original. Such is the case with Skyscraper, a summer film that purposefully attempts to fuse disaster movie fare like The Towering Inferno with the bombastic action of Die Hard. Its star is likable and the film does the best it can to try and entertain, but never builds tension or amounts to much when all is said and done.
The plot follows a former FBI agent named Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson). Now heading a security systems company, old friend (Pablo Schreiber) gets him an interview in...
DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for July 13, 2018
Time for another look at flicks coming your way on Blu-ray and DVD. There are a couple of big, high profile releases, some smaller titles and tons of older features making their high definition debuts. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!BIG NEW RELEASES!
211 - Loosely inspired by a real life event, this action thriller involves a bank heist. A cop struggling after a divorced is forced to escort a young high school student on a ride-along. Nearby, a group of armed criminals rob a bank. Bullets fly and the villains try to escape, with both the police officer and the student finding themselves in the middle...
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