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Tom Hanks is on the 'Road to Perdition' on Netflix, Prime Video, and Paramount+
Tom Hanks is on the ‘Road to Perdition’ on Netflix, Prime Video, and Paramount+
Road to Perdition (2002), Sam Mendes’ follow-up to his Oscar-winning American Beauty, is dark, Depression-era gangster drama.
Tom Hanks stars as a coolly efficient, quietly professional mob enforcer Michael Sullivan, a family man who keeps his job and family in separate universes, and Paul Newman is the paternal mob boss John Rooney, a man unable to separate family from “family” business. When…
Cool Hand Luke-Paramount Summer Classic Film Series
I was once a guest on the Lambcast when we discussed this movie. Some of the other guests seemed befuddled at why the film is so iconic and loved. I recall that one person said that Paul Newman’s character did not have a story arc and he was the same at the end of the film as he was at the beginning. That my friends is the point! Luke Jackson was a non-conformist in the days when conforming was…