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Brolin Battles Rambo
Filed under: Action », Casting », DIY/Filmmaking », Remakes and Sequels »
For those of you who thought James
Brolin lost some of his edge after becoming Mr. Barbara
Streisand, think again -- the actor has, apparently, signed on to star in the upcoming Rambo 4. Hoo-rah!
According to reports, Brolin, taking over for the beloved Col. Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna), will play the gutsy Corporal Keating. News of the casting also brought forth an updated plot description which reveals an older and more reclusive (if that's possible) John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), who has done his best to find a life of solitude for himself, his wife and young daughter. However, when his daughter goes missing, Rambo goes back on the hunt. Meanwhile, Corporal Keating is chasing a fugitive falsely accused of war crimes. At some point, Rambo teams up with the fugitive (I'm thinking they can both help solve one another's issues) and the story takes off from there. It's being said that production on Rambo 4 will begin, in India, immediately following Rocky Balboa.
Cinematical Seven: '80s Horror Flicks STILL Not on DVD
Filed under: Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Cinematical Seven »
Did you guys know that Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) has never been released on DVD? That's right: One of the most imaginative, intelligent, and thought-provoking science fiction films of all time (yes, I said all time) is still sitting in some vault collecting dust, while genre contemporaries like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, War of the Worlds, and The Day the Earth Stood Still have all hit DVD sporting all sorts of well-deserved bells & whistles. Directed by Black Lagoon's Jack Arnold and penned by certified ultra-genius Richard Matheson, The Incredible Shrinking Man stands as one of the most influential movies in the history of Weinberg. Plus all that stuff with the cat, the spider, and the dollhouse ... awesome.
So this got me to thinking about other movies that I loved as a kid, most of which (stuff like 1941 and Jaws 2 and The Goonies) already have a home on a special little DVD shelf all their own -- but SOME of which have never seen life as a shiny digital disc! For example, how is it that we can get 11 different versions of (the truly awesome) Evil Dead 2 -- yet The Incredible freakin' Shrinking Man remains DVD MIA?? I actually have a theory on this one: Universal owns the rights to Shrinking Man, and that studio has spent several years trying to cobble together a remake with Keenen Ivory Wayans as the director. One can only assume that Uni is waiting for that retread to bear box office fruit before releasing the original film on DVD as a "tie-in," which (obviously) annoys me to no end.
So listed below in this most recent edition of Cinematical Seven are a bunch of semi-obscure 1980s horror movies that I'd really like to see on DVD. Why switch over from The Incredible Shrinking Man to the generally unpleasant topic of "forgotten 1980s horror movies?" Because a wise man once said "write what you know," and I know very, very little outside the realm of 1980s horror movies. (OK, and Futurama and Halo ... and The Phillies. I know a lot about those things, too.)
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