{"id":40243,"date":"2025-10-12T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40243"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:49:22","slug":"brothers-by-blood-aka-the-sound-of-philadelphia-2020-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40243","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brothers by Blood&#8221;\u00a0aka &#8220;The Sound of Philadelphia&#8221; (2020) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z101125zview_brothersbyblood.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Brothers by Blood<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>aka<strong> The Sound of Philadelphia <\/strong>(2020)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jeremie Guez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jeremie Guez;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46YY1Dz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BROTHERLY LOVE<\/a> by Pete Dexter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Matthias Schoenaerts, Joel Kinnaman, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Crovetti, Antoni Corone, Michael McFadden, Joshua Lacey<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Ryan Phillippe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Loyalty Has a Price<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter and Michael are cousins raised together in a family of criminals from childhood.\u00a0 Now adults, the two of positions of power within the Irish mob.\u00a0 Tensions have been high between the Irish and Italians.\u00a0 To make matters worse, Peter&#8217;s behavior has grown increasingly erratic.\u00a0 Michael will need to make some tough choices before they are made for him.\u00a0 He will also have to come to grips with the tragedy that cost his sister and father&#8217;s lives years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was expecting more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Brothers by Blood<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>aka<strong> The Sound of Philadelphia <\/strong>(2020) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z101125zview_brothersbyblood2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers by Blood\u00a0aka The Sound of Philadelphia (2020) Director:\u00a0 Jeremie Guez Screenplay: Jeremie Guez;\u00a0based on BROTHERLY LOVE by Pete Dexter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40247,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40243\/revisions\/40247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}