Lionsgate dropped some catalog titles on Blu-ray the other week, and the most interesting to me was The Phantom. Most interesting not because it was an amazing movie or anything, mind you, but because it's from that nigh-mythic time when studios were making all sorts of pulp comic movies based on characters that kids were entirely unfamiliar with. It's a couple hours of chuckles to watch Treat Williams getting to twirl the mustache and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing a female henchman who could have easily been named Treachery McSlutbagge.

Wesley Snipes plays a duly-appointed federal marshall in Drop Zone, alongside Gary Busey and Yancy Butler, as well as the late Michael Jeter. It never was (nor will ever be) some sort of action classic, but it'll fit nicely into some bargain bundle by the end of the year.

Anyone remember when Slater was headlining action movies? People on Twitter keep talking about a game called Heavy Rain, and I keep mistaking their huge levels of anticipation as being for the Blu-ray release of Hard Rain, the Christian Slater/Morgan Freeman CG disasterfest from 1998. The all-CG opening is just unwatchable and embarrassing, and probably was 12 years ago as well.

Last but not least is The Running Man, a pre-1990 addition to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Blu-ray Library of Punching (I hope The Villain is next). The movie looks good and grainy, with the Republic Pictures logo really driving home the desired effect of making it feel like a theatrical-quality experience...of a terrible movie. It's been remade and re-imagined a few times, but never better than Series 7: The Contenders. The Running Man includes the only extras of the bunch, two commentaries and two featurettes. All four titles hit on 9 Feb.