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As a longtime furious film fanatic, one of the things I love doing most is keeping track of all the movies I’ve watched, as well as stay up to date on what other people are viewing. It’s especially fun to discover new gems thanks to a friend’s recommendation. Recently, I was invited to sign up to LETTERBOXD, a new community/website for film aficionados where they can indulge in all things [read...]
Martin Scorsese has stepped into the light of family filmmaking and forgotten the tools that made him a legend. Never before has 3D been so well utilized, immersion to the point of our indifference. Acclaimed as it is, “Hugo” has tricked it’s way into the hearts of quality starved old men who regard it’s respect for the original magician as masterful in itself. We want to love what’s happening, but [read...]
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. From the outset we see he’s a mischievous little rascal. When the church closes, it becomes a movie theater, which [read...]
Chances are if you love movies, a good portion of some of your favorite titles were released in the decade that brought us a new wave of rebellious, edgy groundbreaking counter-culture cinema made by daring auteurs that had a furious eye for telling stories filled with excitement and thrills. Furious Cinema has taken some time to compile for you and your reading pleasure a list of 50 of our favorite [read...]
I’m a film geek. I’ve been watching them on a regular basis since the early 80s. I’m in my mid 30s now and I still love movies. I love going to the theater and watching films at home (which I do more often these days). DVDs and Blu Rays: Those little discs all the film geeks cherish like so many jewels. Wiping them off like a baby’s bottom when they [read...]
Today is Martin Scorsese’s Birthday, so we’d like to pay him a tribute with a review of one of our favorite films from his career: In 1973, a new director named Martin Scorsese arrived on the scene and came crashing through the door of cinema with a wildly different look at life in New York City’s Little Italy. Mean Streets was the first breakout film from the kid from [read...]
Netflix is currently the most popular film rental service in the United States and is slowly shutting out all video stores from coast to coast. With the introduction of instant watch via online streaming, Netflix is even on the road to shutting out DVD distributors. While DVDs are still popular, the public is catching onto the instant movie viewing craze. What makes streaming the smart thing for consumers and movie [read...]
In the Summer of 1943 in the Italian town of Rimini, a group of teens welcome back their friend Carlo Caremoli (Jean Louis Trintignant). He meets his old friends including the beautiful brunette Rossanna (Jaqueline Sassard). The kids have a great time, eating pasta and drinking wine. Rosanna likes Carlo and she seems to want to get to know him again. One day at the beach a German fighter [read...]
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