Another Tuesday brings more DVDs and Blurays to the shelf, and while I rarely buy any dvd’s anymore there is a growing section of Blu in my collection.
This week sees a few good films coming out but no big fanfare. Lets check out some of them here:
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Legion In the supernatural action thriller Legion, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany). As long as you forget any logic in the Bible, this movie is just a fun visuals and graphic violence that doesn’t make a lick of sense. Not buying it. |
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Edge of Darkness Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder—and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven’s solitary search for answers about his daughter’s death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption. What looked like a ripoff of Taken turned into a pretty good cop suspense drama that really makes you think. |
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Daybreakers The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world’s population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species—forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It’s all up to Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans. But time and hope are running out—until Ed meets Audrey (Claudia Karvan), a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for, Ed must battle his own kind in a deadly struggle that will decide the fate of the human race. Vampires are in, and Daybreakers took a Matrix meets I am Legend approach to the mythos. Worth the watch. |
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Karate Kid 1&2 Daniel LaRusso is the new kid in town who just doesn’t fit in. But when he gets in a fight with the school bully he realizes his YMCA Karate lessons didn’t teach him to fight. After a few good beatings, Daniel gets an unlikely friend in the form of the building’s maintenance man who teaches him Karate and control to go on to win out over the bullies without becoming one. The sequel has Daniel follow Mr Miagi to Okinawa where he helps his teacher face his own past and is taught more about the family legacy of Miagi Karate. These are the best parts of the series. Part 3 kind of digs the hole and ends the series for Macchio. The fourth Karate Kid now stars Hillary Swank as the New Karate Kid – and it never got a sequel. With the new film coming out or not, this is a classic title delievered to Blu that I will be picking up. |
So what are you going to pick up this week?
