Category: Directed by Phil Joanou
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Director Joanou definitely familiarized himself with film noir before directing Dead-End for Delia (an episode of noir anthology “Fallen Angels”) but apparently didn’t realized doing it in color would break the shots. Especially since cinematographer Declan Quinn often just boosts the contrast to hide modern background elements. But Scott Frank’s script is also a problem.…
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Dirty Laundry might be the first of its kind. It’s Thomas Jane returning to a role he (somewhat) famously quit in an unofficial, self-financed short sequel. Well, a sequel without any copyright or trademark infringements, which makes it all the better. In many ways, Laundry is a proof of concept for adapting Marvel Comics’s Punisher…
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I probably read Heaven’s Prisoners, the novel, about eighteen years ago; I don’t remember it. But I’m sure this adaptation is faithful to the events of the novel because this movie is a mess and there’s no good reason for it. The novel can have space for a mystery and a character drama, but–at least…
The Stop Button 