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The late director Ted Demme’s final film turned out to be his best. It was a spectacular work of crime cinema based on the true story of George Jung, an infamous cocaine smuggler who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 80s. We are introduced to George in his childhood years growing up in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The small New England town experience is filmed in a delicious penny candy technicolor. [read...] 
The 1970s had a torrent of awesome cinema as we covered in one of our first features on FC, 50 Furious Films: The 1970s. Crime movies in particular seemed to be especially popular during that time. There was a kind of resurgence in the genre which started in the late 60s with films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Bullitt (1968) and were followed by hard boiled police procedurals like [read...] 
Many years ago, when I was in my teenage years, we hosted a movie night on a decent big screen. We had a few beers, sat on rancid couches and popped in a DVD from the video store. The movie was Perdita Durango, and I had never seen a movie like that before in my life. From Dusk Till Dawn might be the closest I ever got to seeing a [read...] 
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, The Z Channel was a dream come true for lovers of cinema. On Z, you could see every kind of film, from European Arthouse cinema to Hollywood blockbusters. Z was essentially the first pay cable channel to run movies 24 hours a day, well before the advent of such mainstays as HBO and Showtime. This excellent documentary by Xan Cassavetes (the daughter of the legendary [read...] 
Michael Cimino’s second film The Deer Hunter (1978) is his finest hour as a filmmaker. Sadly he would never again reach the same kind of critical acclaim he received from it. The story is an equally beautiful, haunting and sad look at the effects war has on people’s lives. It’s very much about innocence lost as three friends (Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Savage) become forever changed by their experiences in [read...] 
In Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money (1986), the sequel to The Hustler, we meet up with Fast Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman) 25 years after he walked away from the game he was so extraordinary at. Eddie is now a liquor salesman and he’s done well for himself, bringing the same attention to excellence to it as he did with pool. In the opening scene, his current girlfriend (Helen Shaver) [read...] 
In the fourth installment of the Bourne series of espionage thrillers, Jeremy Renner (The Town, The Avengers) takes over where Matt Damon left off, playing Aaron Cross, another highly skilled, deadly operative that is brought into play to deal with the consequences of Jason Bourne’s actions concerning The Treadstone organization. From this teaser trailer it looks like Renner has enough of his own panache to easily make audiences forget about [read...] 
In Robert Rossen’s The Hustler (1961), we get to know an amazingly good pool player named “Fast Eddie” Felsen (Paul Newman). The film follows Eddie’s adventures in the world of being a pool shark and living on the road along with his manager-best friend Charlie (Myron McCormick). While Eddie is extremely talented in his profession, he also doesn’t have the sense god gave a mule. Alot of times, those with [read...] 
Walter Hill got his start in film as an assistant director on Bullitt (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Woody Allen’s screwball crime comedy Take The Money and Run (1969). He then moved on to writing screenplays for such classics as Robert Culp’s Hickey & Boggs (1972) and Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972) as well as two Paul Newman vehicles: The Mackintosh Man (1973) and The Drowning Pool (1975). [read...] 
In the mad as hell Belgian crime-drama BULLHEAD Matthias Schoenaerts stars as a steroid injecting cattle farmer named Jacky Vanmarsenille who is caught up in shady dealings with a veteranarian who asks him to purchase a load of mafia owned beef. After the sudden assassination of a federal officer investigating the situation and a secret from Jackie’s past reemerges, things takes a very dark turn. As you can see in [read...] |
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