Leviathan is a 1989 creature-feature staring Peter Weller, directed by George P. Cosmatos written by David Webb Peoples and Jeb Stuart, with Cinematography by Alex Thomson. Since this movie hasn’t had a satisfactory Blu-ray release, I thought I’d take a look at the iTunes HD version.

A deep sea mining crew stumble across the wreck of a Soviet military ship, whose loss apparently hasn’t been recorded. Accidentally exposing themselves to a potent mutagen, the mutated crew members began picking off the survivors one-by-one.

The crew divide the spoils of the Soviet shipwreck.

The supporting cast are all recognizable faces, including Amanda Pays, Meg Foster, Richard Crenna, Daniel Stern. and Ernie Hudson, and Peter Weller adds some weight to the cast. But we are playing strictly for B-movie thrills.

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Ed Harris sees flakes of ice lit up by the Sun.

The Right Stuff is an epic drama covering the early years of the U.S. space program through to the Mercury program. Adapted from a book by Tom Wolfe, the film won four Oscars and stars Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Babara Hershey and Sam Shepard. Though the film was a commercial failure, grossing only 21 million dollars on a budget of 27, it is on many top ten lists for 1983.

The film is due for Blu-ray release later this year – I thought’d I’d have give the iTunes HD download a quick review to see if it might be a better choice.

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