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1.How Sleep the Brave starring: Lawrence Day, Luis Manuel, Thomas M. Pollard, Christopher Muncke, Daniel Foley
directed by: Lindsay Shonteff
May 05, 2000
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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VHS : How Sleep the Brave
A few months ago several friends and myself were accosted in a pub by a (relatively sober) Glaswegian man who had been listening in our conversation about movies. According to this man the most 'amazing' film he had ever seen was called 'How Sleep the Brave' and from how he described it made 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' look like 'Carry on in 'Nam'. He insisted we seek it out. Needless to say we did not.

However, by some cruel twist of fate one of my friends was given the film on DVD at Christmas (the film now called 'Combat Zone - How Sleep the Brave' by Castle Video). One by one we all watched it. The only thing amazing about this movie is the fact it got made at all - I consider this film as worse than 'Silver Dream Racer' and that's saying something. It's clearly been ... Read More

2.Penitentiary starring: Thommy Pollard, Hazel Spears, Chuck Mitchell, Badja Djola, Carl Irwin
directed by: Jamaa Fanaka
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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VHS : Penitentiary
This film was really good. Writer and director Jamaa Fanaka was still a student at UCLA and Penitentiary was the first starring vehicle for former disc jockey and future evangelist Leon Isaac Kennedy. If you don't know the story it goes like this; Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy) is charged with murder, and convicted despite his innocence; he's shipped off to a run-down prison where Jesse Amos (Donovan Womack), one of the prisoners, lords it over the other inmates. Too Sweet ends up sharing a cell with Half Dead (Badja Djola), a violent lunatic who is one of Jesse's musclemen. Too Sweet refuses to buckle under to the intimidation dished out by Half Dead and his cronies, even after seeing how they've "turned out" Eugene (Thommy Pollard), another new fish who has become Jesse's sexual slave. Forced ... Read More

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