Prey of the Chameleon (1992) – Director: Fleming B. Fuller – 5/10 (okay/decent)A lot better than what its salacious cover would imply: from the very get-go, one is able to discern considerable attention paid to pacing and steady unfolding of the plot with just the right amount of time dedicated […]
1992
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Kino Lorber will be releasing a new 4K Ultra HD Edition of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 crime film BAD LIEUTENANT starring Harvey Keitel on May 21st. Review | Buy from Amazon Synopsis: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He’s a gambler. A thief. A junkie. A killer. A […]
The presidential election is coming! It’s the time when we are forced to choose the candidate that…you know, is the least evil. Unfortunately, in this election we have many scary would-be candidates from both parties. In fact, if I was a US citizen I’d vote for a third party for […]
RAISING CAIN (1992) one of Director Brian DePalma’s best psychological thrillers is the ultimate mindgame that takes the director’s trademark thrills, suspense and black comedy to the extreme. Scream Factory will release the upcoming Collector’s Edition on Blu Ray. ORDER FROM AMAZON SYNOPSIS: Carter Nix (Lithgow) is a respected psychologist, […]
Year of Furious Films is our newest series on FC where we’ll be choosing our favorite films from each designated year. You may notice that we won’t be going in chronological order, it’ll be more random, but that’s really part of the fun. We’ll be covering a wide array of […]
Man Bites Dog is a film that I had been trying to find for a while. A DVD eluded my grasp but I was pleasantly surprised to find the film available on YouTube. You can watch it there if a DVD is not available. I really like the title, “Man […]
In Los Angeles a young black woman named Fantasia (Cynda Williams), her lover Ray Malcolm (Billy Bob Thornton) and their cohort Lenny “Pluto” Franklin (Michael Beach) attack some of her friends who have some information about a drug dealer in the area. Ray holds one of them hostage at gunpoint […]
20 years ago I saw a film that would be now considered the epitome of what we like to call Furious Cinema. That was Director James Foley’s big screen adaptation of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize/Tony award winning play written by David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross. What I’ve always loved most […]
From the opening moments of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1992) when New York Police Officer “L.T.” (Harvey Keitel) drives his bratty kids to school we can see he is a furious human being. As he watches the kids leave he sneaks a few snorts of coke just to wake himself […]
Spike Lee’s 1992 epic biographical masterwork was a true labor of love for the director. It was first going to be made by Norman Jewison (In The Heat of The Night) but after protesting that a black filmmaker should make the film, Lee was hired to direct. During the production […]