CineFusion Weekly – 4/23/12

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CineFusion? Wazzat you ask? It’s FC’s new weekly compendium of various furious film info and links we’ll be sharing with our readers. We hope you enjoy this latest addition to the site! MAD AS HELL MOVIE MUSIC: “Vamos a Matar Companeros” (Titoli) by Ennio Morricone GET DJANGO’D!: We’re anxiously awaiting Quentin’s latest cinematic adventure and our sister site has been steadily putting together a collection of all the Django Unchained [read...]

CRIMEWATCH: Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant

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 him up. When he gets to his latest job in the city (the scene of a double murder) the dark mood [read...]

FURIOUS POSTERS: Go balls to the wall with The Raid: Redemption

The Raid: Redemption

We’re really anxious to see this furious action film from director Gareth Evans. Word around the geek campfire is that it delivers the mad as hell, brutally bombastic thrills big time! We’ve been informed recently from other sites that the movie has been retitled The Raid: Redemption because it is, in fact, the first in a trilogy. This just cranks up the coolness even more to find out that we’ll [read...]

Furious Anti-Heroes of Cinema Vol. 1

Furious Anti-Heroes of Cinema Vol. 1

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...]

FURIOUS POSTERS: Woody is handing out beatdowns in RAMPART

Rampart

If there was any confusion as to how much of a mad as hell police officer Woody Harrelson will be playing in his upcoming film RAMPART, this new viral poster with the hilarious subtitle “I WORK FOR YOU” says it all. For more information on the film check out our previous post: HERE UPDATE (February 24, 2012): The latest poster has an even more furious-retro aesthetic. Love this! Looks like [read...]

2012: THE YEAR OF MAD AS HELL MOVIES!

2012: The Year of Mad As Hell Movies

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...]

FURIOUS XMAS FILM CLASSICS

Furious Xmas Film Classics

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...]

FURIOUS POSTERS: The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2

For those of us that grew up on 80s action films, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis were the undisputed kings of the big screen kill. Then in the late 80s-mid 90s a kid named Jean Claude Van Damme came along and knocked out hits like Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Hard Target, Lionheart and Double Impact. Almost all their movies still hold up great today and continue to provide [read...]

FURIOUS SOUNDS: John Carpenter’s Christine

John Carpenter's Christine

When the Literary Master of Horror meets Film’s Master of Horror, it’s a recipe for some truly furious cinema. That’s exactly what the result was with John Carpenter’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s best selling novel Christine, another female titled tale like Carrie that dealt with the supernatural. In this case the gal in question was a demonically possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury. Thurston Harris’ good time 1957 rock n’ roll [read...]

FURIOUS SOUNDS: The Fury

The Fury

Music Composed by John Williams, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra With his 1978 supernatural action-thriller The Fury, Director Brian DePalma dealt with a subject he had explored previously in Carrie: telekinesis. The story involves a newly retired special government agent named Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) whose teenage son Robin (Andrew Stevens) has special powers (although we aren’t sure exactly what they are at first). It’s soon apparent after [read...]