Little Fish, the limited release and widely underseen 2020 film from Chad Hartigan (The Threesome, Morris From America), was a movie that captivated me so much that I turned it off 30 minutes in while falling asleep late at night, knowing I could not give the film the full justice it needed, and started it from the beginning the next morning. Released straight to streaming during the COVID-19 pandemic, most who have watched this film likely did so through word of mouth or because they are fans of one or both of the two lead characters, each an A-list actor with a large following.
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The Inspection (2022)
Heavy military boot camp movies cannot help but draw comparisons to Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. The groundbreaking drama showcased the lengths to which the United States Military Academies sometimes go to “break” their recruits. Another great example is the under-appreciated but long-remembered G.I. Jane. Both films featured recruits who were not wanted (Full Metal Jacket with the obese, dimwitted Leonard “aka Gomer Pyle” Lawrence, played fantastically by Vincent D’Onofrio, or Demi Moore as the lone trial candidate in a U.S. Navy female integration program in G.I. Jane). A similar example is Men of Honor, the story of Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver.