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The world of martial arts cinema has been a major part of popular culture for many decades now. It essentially began to sweep across the world in the early 70s with such movies as Five Fingers of Death (1972) and Bruce Lee’s breakout smash Enter The Dragon (1973) as well as the hit TV series Kung Fu (1972-75) which starred David Carradine as an Asian-American shaolin priest who must flee [read...] 
It will come as no surprise for us to say that we can’t wait to see Quentin Tarantino‘s latest film Django Unchained when it hits theaters next December. In the meantime we’ve decided to put together a special list of films that we think will get Tarantino geeks in the right frame of mind for what they’ll be seeing when Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz ride across the silver screen. [read...] 
PSYCHO (1960, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock) When the “Master of Suspense” set out to make this movie it was to be a modest, low budget thriller shot by the crew of his popular TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. As with almost all of his projects, it soon became something much more cinematically powerful and resonant. Psycho was based on the book of the same title by author Robert Bloch (which also [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 [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...] 
No siree, these aren’t your everyday do-gooders that pull cats out of trees and help old ladies cross the street. These are the dark, scarred, lone scavengers of film. They are also some of the all time coolest complex, mysterious characters who blur a grey line between what we consider “good” and “bad”. They are the Furious Anti-Heroes of Cinema! Name: Joe Manco/”Blondie” Occupation: Bounty Killer Director Sergio Leone’s “Dollars [read...] 
“I thought DePalma’s Raising Cain (pic below) was a blast. I had a total blast out of watching it. But part of the fun about the movie – which I don’t know, if the studio liked it that much – was the fact that it almost, the whole thing works to annoy the viewer because, it, like- you’ve got a man [DePalma] who’s like- ‘Look, I created, more or less, [read...] 
Unlike post-apocalyptic films which Seb covered HERE, the dystopian subgenre focuses on a world that has been dramatically changed due to such problems as failing economy, over crowding, crime, bio-chemical plagues and religion. The opposite of a utopia (paradise), these societies are usually extremely repressed and run under Governmental, Alien and Corporate based law. The dystopian movies offer audiences yet another kind of excitement from seeing twisted, alternate versions of [read...] 
Our latest analytical article looks at two films by David Fincher and compares and contrasts themes and characters that connect the movies. “The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don’t go to it, it comes to you.” In the 1997 psychological thriller The Game Michael Douglas stars as Nicholas Van Orton a millionaire book publisher that has all but lost [read...] 
Well the new year is upon us once again and we’re really excited about the many upcoming films being released in 2012. Lots of super hero and sci fi geek adventures await us as well as some grassroots crime/action-adventure tales to be unspun with fury on the big screen. 2012 will also mark a dramatic change in the theatrical film experience as our beloved 35mm largely becomes replaced by digital [read...] |
   
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