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The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorceror, To Live and Die in L.A., these are just a few of the cinematic masterpieces Director William Friedkin has given to movie lovers over the years. We’re thrilled to hear that he has a new film on the way and it’s by no means playing by the usual Hollywood rules, something we at Furious Cinema not only love to see but it’s partly why [read...] 
While watching one of my all time favorite films this past week, Robert Zemeckis’ 1980 screwball classic auto-comedy USED CARS I discovered a connection. It wasn’t with another film that has a similar theme but something else I’ve been thinking alot about, specifically what’s currently going on in the movie industry regarding all the 3D and higher frame rate speed hucksterism. It seems that these various gimmicks (for lack of [read...] 
With spring-summer approaching, I’ve been recently thinking about the many movies that take place in that warm time of the year. After going over the titles I could cover, I realized it would be a perfect opportunity to look back on the first film I ever saw by one of my favorite filmmakers Spike Lee, that being his controversial 1989 masterpiece Do The Right Thing. The film immediately bombards viewers [read...] 
After directing the low budget cult classics Evil Dead 1 and 2, Director Sam Raimi signed on to make his first big studio feature. It was a film based on a short story he wrote that paid tribute to some of his favorite Universal horror films such as The Invisible Man and Frankenstein. Darkman was a blending of the crime, horror, comedy and super hero genres that exploded onto the [read...] 
Happy Holidays from your favorite mad as hell movie geeks at Furious Cinema! Every year during the holiday season we’re subjected to the same old line up of holiday films on TV, you know the drill: It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty The Snowman, A Christmas Story etc. While all of these are entertaining movies that convey the festive spirit of the season, [read...] 
In one of the early scenes of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, the critically acclaimed “worst director of all time” (Johnny Depp) is in his office making a phonecall, behind him on the wall are two posters. One is for Citizen Kane, the other: Dracula. This detail clues us into Wood’s taste and his appreciation of iconoclastic genius as well as the more outrageous side of cinema. When we first meet [read...] 
Indie Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has always made films that are, to me, akin to punk rock: simple yet extremely effective and powerful. Especially his early works such as the 1984 absurdist comedy Stranger Than Paradise which I revisited recently. He is continuously able to take a minimalist approach to cinema and make something that all the SFX and action sequences in movies usually can’t give a viewer. What I [read...] 
This week in Blu Releases: Three classic films from directors who have made their own unique impacts on the world of cinema. One is a 90s trippy crime caper-comedy, the second, a 70s revisionist Western-adventure, the third, a 50s court potboiler. Although their content is entirely unrelated, what they do share is cinematic storytelling at its finest. This Coen Brothers film was a sleeper that went on to become a [read...] 
If American Graffiti was the film that defined the sock hop/car culture/drive-in scene of the early 60s then Dazed and Confused (1993) is the film that represents the 70s in all its long haired, pot smoking, free-wheeling, bell bottomed beauty. In the early 90s Writer-Director Richard Linklater produced an indie feature about a group of Austin, Texas high school students (based on his own experiences/friends) and the result was one [read...] 
The embattled filmmaker Roman Polanski is someone who has had one stormy life to say the least. He is still a very controversial figure, a cinematic genius to some and a criminal to others. For me, I’ve always just focused on his outstanding work and continue to regard him as one of the best directors in the business. Almost all of his movies I’ve truly enjoyed and have been affected [read...] |
   
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