Editor-In-Chief of Grindhouse Cinema Database and Furious Cinema. Pete is an avid movie geek who enjoys everything from wild n' crazy exploitation and cult films to popular mainstream classics. Follow on Twitter @furiouscinema
The Eye of Bill “The Butcher” As Bill The Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis) stands in the cold snow, the camera cuts in to an extreme close up of his evil glass eye which features the image of an American eagle. Gangs of New York: Being a longtime fan of Scorsese, […]
In this 1972 crime-action-thriller classic Charles Bronson is Arthur Bishop, a connisseur of fine things. He lives in a luxurious home, collects expensive art and has a very interesting line of work: he’s a hit man. Every person Bishop is ordered to kill comes from a secret organization that he […]
I’ve always been a fan of films that are special little treasures that get lost in the shuffle. The kinds that are buried in the attic of popular cinema’s consciousness. This edition of Crimewatch covers such a movie. It’s Martin Brest‘s 1979 crime-caper film Going In Style. To start, there […]
Director Sergio Leone once said that music makes up 40% of a movie. That is certainly true for his films in which his composer the legendary Ennio Morricone created a unique musical landscape of sound that would take film scores to entirely new level and inspire generations of musicians both […]
Mel Brooks has made some of the most hilarious comedies in cinema from The Producers to Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein (1974) is what I like to call the “Citizen Kane of horror film parodies”. Gene Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein the grandson of the infamous mad scientist Victor Frankenstein. Unlike his […]
“I like to act in films, I like to shoot ’em, I like to direct ’em, I like to be around ’em. I like the feel of it and it’s something I respect. It doesn’t make any difference whether it’s a crappy film or a good film. Anyone who can […]
Ever since first seeing Touch of Evil (1958) it has been one of my favorite films. It is often cited as one of the last examples of film noir but that statement is partially incorrect because the term, while largely associated with the 40s/50s hard boiled crime films is not […]
Humor is the main ingredient in Giuseppe Tornatore‘s award winning masterpiece Cinema Paradiso (1988) that pulls you into its wonderful world and doesn’t let go. In the small Italian villa of Giancaldo we meet young Salvatore DeVita (Salvatore Cascio) also known as “Toto” who is an altar boy in church. […]
Zeke Brown (Richard Pryor) Jerry Bartoski (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey James (Yaphet Kotto) work at a Detroit auto factory where their boss is constantly on their backs. Their only real way of letting off steam is hanging out at the union bar nearby, where they drink, tell stories and crack […]
Brian DePalma’s Carrie. It doesn’t get much more cinematically thrilling than this one. Based on the book by Stephen King, it has become a true classic for horror film fans sitting alongside other 70s hits of its time like The Exorcist and Jaws. One thing that’s interesting about this movie, […]