Burning - BLU-RAY

Frank Sinatra is unforgettable as a psychotic war veteran whose goal is to assassinate The President of the United States! As John Baron, Sinatra and his henchmen take over a house near the train station, holding the family hostage while waiting for the president's train to arrive. Baron is good with a gun and has the perfect vantage point. All he has to do is keep a cool head. But can he? This cold-blooded thriller from director Lewis Allen (The Uninvited) feels as savage as it did decades ago when the New York Times called Sinatra's performance, Incha melodramatic tour de force.Inch

Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past, The Night of the Hunter, The Longest Day, The Enemy Below) takes the wheel as Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin in the gripping noir-tinged crime drama, Thunder Road. Inspired by an original story written by Mitchum himself, Thunder Road follows Lucas as he returns from the war and is drawn into the family business distilling and running moonshine throughout the South. Along the way he'll face off with a by-the-book U.S. Treasury Agent (Gene Barry, The War of the Worlds, The 27th Day, TV's Burke's Law), a ruthless gangster (Jacques Aubuchon, The Silver Chalice) and his own conscious as he struggles with his younger brother's (played by Mitchum's son James Mitchum, Trackdown, Moonrunners, Hollywood Cop, In Harm's Way, Blackout) growing involvement in the dangerous trade. Arthur Ripley (The Chase, Voice in the Wind, Prisoner of Japan) directs and Mitchell Ryan (Grosse Pointe Blank, Liar Liar, Lethal Weapon), Keely Smith (Hey Boy! Hey Girl!), Trevor Bardette (The Monolith Monsters, The Deerslayer, The Westerner) and Sandra Knight (The Terror, Tower of London, Frankenstein's Daughter) round out the cast.

Aging minister Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) subsumed a lifetime's regrets in his quiet shepherding of a historic but fading small-town church. However, when a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) sought special counsel for her environmentally conscious and despondent husband (Brian Ettinger), the reticent reverend might meet his own dangerous crisis of faith. Engrossing return to form for writer-director Paul Schrader co-stars Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Gaston, Victoria Hill. 113 min. Standard; Soundtrack English.