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Elie Chouaqui\u2019s Man on Fire<\/a><\/strong> (1987) was the first film version of A.J. Quinnell\u2019s same-titled novel, which Tony Scott later turned into a nastier revenge flick in 2004 with Denzel Washington. Chouraqui\u2019s rendering\u00a0of a former war vet hunting down the kidnappers of a teen is less grungy, bloody, and sadistic, but it\u2019s a minor cult film that hasn\u2019t enjoyed\u00a0 a proper widescreen release until KINO mined MGM\/UA\u2019s catalogue last year.<\/p>\nMatthias Schoenaerts bodyguards Diane Kruger and her son, and while this is a very low-key suspense-drama, there\u2019s a unique undercurrent of Anything Can Happen, and Winocour exploits our calm with a few genuinely effective jolts.<\/p>\n Coming shortly<\/em>: reviews of the impeccably produced Peyton Place<\/strong> (1957) on Blu from Twilight Time, and the CanCon classique Cathy\u2019s Curse<\/strong> (1977) from Severin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor Reviews of two tales involving war vets taking babysitting gigs with very different threat levels: Alice Winocour’s Disorder \/ aka Maryland (2015) from IFC + Elie Chouraqui’s underrated filming of A.J. Quinnell’s Man on Fire (1987) from KL Studio Classics \/ Unobstructed View.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5083,5084,5079,2562,2563,5090,4620],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Disorder_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-47X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15893,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/15893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Disorder2015_poster_s.jpg\")
The anti-hero\u2019s a reluctant babysitter haunted by PTSD flashes from combat, and the \u2018babysitting\u2019 dilemma was also central to Alice Winocour\u2019s suspense drama Disorder<\/a><\/strong>, aka Maryland<\/a><\/strong> (2015), which also received a DVD-only release in the U.S. via IFC.<\/p>\n
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