Modern Noir: Sean Penn in U-Turn (1997) + The Gunman (2015)
Sean Penn headlines a pair of modern noir entries on Blu: Oliver Stone’s brilliantly wacky U-Turn (1997) from Twilight Time, and Pierre Morel’s The Gunman (2015) from Universal.
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Refugee Tales: Heaven & Earth (1993) + Green Dragon (2001)
Reviews of two films chronicling aspects of the Vietnam War and its central refugee characters: Oliver Stone’s Heaven & Earth (1993) on Blu via Twilight Time + Timothy and Tony Bui’s Green Dragon (2001) on DVD from Sony.
Death in the Bathroom: Motivational Growth (2013) + Memory Lane (2013)
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.
Wild Blood: Italy’s Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida
Reviews of The Jester’s Supper / La cena delle beffe (1942) from One 7 Movies with Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, Italy’s wartime silver screen power couple whose tragic final years and execution were dramatized in Wild Blood / Sangepazzo (2008) from eOne.
Desert Island Films: The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) + Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Reviewed are two films I’d have to have if trapped on a desert island: Steve Kloves’ The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) from Twilight Time + Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise (1988) from Warner Home Video.
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