film of the week

FILM OF THE WEEK-4/29/13: THE PUNISHER (1989)

SYNOPSIS: Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb, has become THE PUNISHER… a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast. Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers, THE PUNISHER leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brutal crime and savage retribution. A world where only one thing is certain…the guilty will be punished. Several years ago, Dolph Lundgren started making an even bigger name for himself, appearing in Sylvester Stallone’s all-star action blowout, The Expendables, and director John Hyams’s re-envisioning of the classic Deveraux vs. Scott rivalry in the Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, followed by Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning with Scott Adkins in the lead. And still, after decades of a continually lucrative career in the film industry, Lundgren is […]

FILM OF THE WEEK (4/22/13): THE PRODIGY (2005)

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SYNOPSIS: When a gang enforcer crosses paths with a cerebral killer, a body count ensues setting off a chain of events leading a trail of blood, death, mystery, and questioned alliances that will force one man to take on the ultimate evil in a brutal fight to the finish. The Prodigy is another hidden gem that I got to see on cable a long time ago. I remember the first time streaming the trailer for it on Twitchfilm when they had one of their old formats up. And all I knew was that looked like a pretty good crime thriller with a horror twist to it, and I looked forward to it. So I finally got around to seeing it on TV, though I couldn’t finish it because I was at the day job and had to miss more than half of it. In the days after, I got to […]

FILM OF THE WEEK (4/15/13): LETHAL WEAPON (1987)

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SYNOPSIS: When two reluctantly partnered homicide detective sergeants, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, are assigned to look into the mysterious death of a prostitute, the case becomes a murder investigation into an elaborate drug smuggling operation run by former Vietnam soldiers. But when they kidnap Riggs and Murtaugh along with Murtaugh’s daughter, things get personal, and the only thing that matters for Riggs and Murtaugh, is vengeance! It was announced in 2011 that Warner Bros. set plans in motion to reboot the 1987 buddy cop action blockbuster, Lethal Weapon, which starred Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as the classic characters, Detective Seargants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. The original film, directed and co-produced by Richard Donner, became a major commerical success and spawned three more sequels through 1998, tentatively ending the franchise with the release of Lethal Weapon 4, which shot then Hong Kong action star Jet Li to stardom. […]

Film Of The Week (3/18/13): CASSHERN (2004)

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Click HERE if the embed fails to load. SYNOPSIS: In a world with an alternate history, a great war finally comes to an end leaving the earth diseased and polluted. The geneticist Dr. Azuma vies for support from the government for his neo-cell treatment that he claims can rejuvenate the body and regenerate humankind. The government leaders, guarding their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the professor. Driven to complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a sinister faction of the powerful military. After an incident occurs in Dr. Azuma’s lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are unleashed upon the world. Now, Dr. Azuma’s son, reincarnated into the warrior, Casshern, with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen, and a world on the brink of annihilation. Today’s Film Of The Week comes by way of the recent report of Jun Kaname’s […]

FILM OF THE WEEK (3/4/13): U.S. SEALS 2: THE ULTIMATE FORCE

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Synopsis via DVD Empire: At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack. For me, U.S. Seals 2: The Ultimate Force is one of those hidden gems in the video store. I used to bypass it at first because I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t know who Isaac Florentine was and I had no computer to look up anything. So it was to my good luck that one day I finally decided to give it a shot, pick that puppy off the “New Releases” area by […]