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Two hitmen, Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) are hired to track down and kill Johnny North (John Cassavetes) by an unknown client. When they find North he is teaching auto repair at a school for the blind. Right away it is apparent these two assassins mean business as they rough up anyone who gets in their way, even a blind female secretary. The men proceed to the room [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...] 
Frank (James Caan) is a master safe cracker who also owns an automobile dealership as a front to prove hes a legit businessman. His years of taking scores and past imprisonment have turned him into someone who doesn’t have time to waste on the bullshit thrown his way. We can see this in how he moves back and forth with swift, precise actions from his criminal life to his [read...] 
Michael Cimino made his big screen directing debut with this 1974 buddy-crime-road film starring a young Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood. Cimino had previously co-written another Eastwood film, Magnum Force (the sequel to Dirty Harry) with John Milius the year before he began working on this project. A loner named Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) with nothing to lose except some time, steals a sportscar from a local Montana car dealership. Meanwhile [read...] 
In Nicholas Winding-Refn‘s upcoming action film which won him Best Director prize at Cannes 2011, Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stuntman who has a second job on the side: he’s a getaway driver for a criminal outfit. After a heist goes bad, he soon finds himself marked for death by his underworld associates. In the tradition of film’s like The Driver and Heat, this is sure to be one fast [read...] 
The crime genre film has been one of the most popular forms of cinema since the early days of Hollywood. These kinds of heightened, dramatic, violent stories about outsiders in society who live on their own terms have always captivated filmgoers. In the 1930s and 40s gangster pictures were all the furious rage. Actors like James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and Humphrey Bogart gained popularity in roles as [read...] 
The 1970s was an incredible decade for cinema. One of my personal favorite films from that era is Don Siegel’s Charley Varrick. Story has it Siegel’s pal Clint Eastwood was originally supposed to star in the film, but the part ended up going to the late great Walter Matthau instead. Siegel’s earlier crime classics like The Killers (1964), Coogan’s Bluff (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) all were excellent but Charley [read...] |
   
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