Jake Speed has its best intentions but unfortunately thanks to the lack of charisma from the main actor, and some half-baked writing, this comes across as a D-grade Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Author: TheMovieman
Hustlers 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Review
Hustlers had some potential and the story its inspired by was interesting, however in spite of an impressive performance from Jennifer Lopez, everything else was pretty much a letdown.
Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection Blu-ray Review
The Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection is an amazing set from Shout Factory that, along with 28 fun films, had great audio and video transfers across the board to go along with a nice selection of bonus material.
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Silver Bullet: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review
Silver Bullet is by no means a good movie or even all that entertaining, though the acting from Busey and Haim were good and the effects work was fairly impressive considering the time period.
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Big Trouble in Little China: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review
Big Trouble in Little China isn’t one of my favorite films of the 80s nor is it one of my favorites from John Carpenter, but despite some lackluster character development and a plot that feels a bit disjointed, ignoring all of that makes for a fun flick.
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The Kitchen Blu-ray Review
The Kitchen is the epitome of an un-ambitious movie that is less of a love song to the crime-dramas of the 1970s and instead features a myriad of topes and clichés from the era.
Operation Crossbow: Warner Archive Collection Blu-ray Review
Operation Crossbow isn’t what I’d call a great World War II era film, but still all in all rather well made with a finale that easily outweigh some of the middling scenes that came before. That said, any fan of WWII movies, this is still well worth checking out.
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Crimson Peak (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
It might be too simplistic to call Crimson Peak style over substance, but I couldn’t quite embrace this gothic-romantic in spite of some incredible production designs and a couple fine performances by Hiddleston and Chastain.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Review
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark wasn’t terribly ‘scary’ so much but still creative, with the influence of Guillermo Del Toro as executive producer, and all around entertaining with a respectable group of young actors.
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Teen Titans: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review
The Teen Titans: The Complete Series release is a great set especially if you didn’t already own the individual releases, plus it saves a small amount of shelf space for those lacking it.
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Hard Night Falling DVD Review
Hard Night Falling, outside of having a terrible title, just is all around a bad movie all around. Dolph Lundgren doesn’t exactly try his hardest yet still is the best part, but that’s not say a whole lot.
RoboCop: Limited Edition Blu-ray Review
RoboCop all these years later still holds up rather well, and Peter Weller as the title character was the perfect choice for the role and featured a respectable ensemble supporting cast, including Kurtwood Smith and Ronny Cos, with special mention to Karen Allen.
Angel Has Fallen 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Review
Angel Has Fallen is pretty much in-line with the first two movies, meaning they’re fine time-wasters but not top-of-the-line action-thrillers and it is on the predictable side. Still, thanks to Gerard Butler and the indispensible Morgan Freeman, it still was an entertaining thriller.
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All About Eve: The Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
I wish I could recommend this Criterion Collection release of All About Eve but even though the video and audio transfers and features were great, the cheap packaging and shoddy work holding discs using rubber hubs makes this a no-go in my book.
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The 100: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Review
The 100 isn’t normally my kind of show as generally I don’t have much interest in these ever-growing post-apocalyptic shows (which I included The Walking Dead), but I did find this one to be semi-entertaining.
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