According to Oliver Stone, Heaven & Earth isn’t part of his ‘Vietnam Trilogy’ – there isn’t one, just a series of films dealing with aspects of the war instead of recurring characters – but it’s certainly an interesting choice in subject, coming after the autobiographical Platoon (1986) and the bio-drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989)…
Timothy and Tony Bui’s chronicle of newly arrived refugees from Vietnam in 1975 is what you’d call a forgotten film – a small, carefully crafted drama that outside of select markets probably had little screen time, and whose 2002 DVD is an old non-anamorphic transfer…
Suicide in the bathroom is theme shared by Don Thacker’s talking mold thriller Motivational Growth (2013) + Shawn Holmes’ fractured thriller Memory Lane (2013), both from MVD Visual.
Written way back in 1998 (!), Don Thacker’s tale of a schlub and his highly personal relationship with a massive clump of mold in his filthy bathroom has strong overtones of Frank Henenlotter’s uniquely odd canon…
Shawn Holmes’ feature film debut is a very ambitious puzzle tale in which an Afghan war vet plagued with PTSD experiences unusual memory flashes of his dead girlfriend who may not have committed suicide…
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