New REVIEWS AND OTHERWISE: HOLLER/THE DRY/NO SUDDEN MOVE/GUILTY BYSTANDER

 This is the last episode for a few weeks, covering two new VOD releases (HOLLER and THE DRY), Steven Soderbergh’s 1950s noir NO SUDDEN MOVE (now playing on HBOMAX) and an actual 1950s noir—Joseph Lerner’s GUILTY BYSTANDER (now playing on both the Watch TCM app and the website https://www.bynwr.com

https://anchor.fm/terry-mccarty/episodes/HOLLERTHE-DRYNO-SUDDEN-MOVEGUILTY-BYSTANDER-e13tui2

Another bonus REVIEWS AND OTHERWISE episode on underseen film noir

 Second bonus episode, this time experimenting with musical underscore.  Eventually, I’ll take the plunge into reading commercials.

Here’s the link: https://anchor.fm/terry-mccarty/episodes/Bonus-Episode-Underseen-Film-Noir-e1219i1

Also available here: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81ZDE4N2YyNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==

And here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2o84GxeqDmbeytYC2n7hqX

Blogger Ned Merrill on the "Sunshine Noir" genre.

http://knifeinthehead.blogspot.com/2012/05/sunshine-noir.html

Good essay--plus original one sheet posters--on what Ned Merrill of the Obscure One-Sheet blog describes as the "Sunshine Noir" genre of 1980s films with baby boomers/yuppies as the principal characters.

Though it's not a well-known film today, I'd count Jeremy Paul Kagan's THE BIG FIX (1978) with Richard Dreyfuss as private eye Moses Wine (based on a character created by novelist/conservative commentator Roger Simon) as a precursor to "Sunshine Noir."

And Robert Towne's flawed but beautifully-shot-by-Conrad Hall TEQUILA SUNRISE (1988) with Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer serves as the genre's coda.