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Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) has been absent from his old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, NYC for many years. While he was away a few things changed…such as him becoming a police officer in Boston. When he’s picked for a special undercover assignment infiltrating the Irish mob in New York City he accepts but is nervous about it for several obvious reasons. His only contact is Nick (John Turturro) a fellow [read...] 
Mike Newell’s 1997 mob classic Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, a man who went undercover into the New York City mafia to help get evidence to indite members of the organization. Even though Newell wasn’t a veteran of crime cinema compared to someone like Martin Scorsese, he made what is to me one of the very best films in the genre of [read...] 
I can’t really say that I’ve ever left a crime thriller with my stomach in a knot. I didn’t know it was possible for the crime thriller genre, which seems to be stuck on repeat and incapable of surprises, was fully capable of coming up with something that would truly shake me to my core. Well, along comes director Andrew Dominik’s black-as-night Killing Them Softly, a darkly comedic and politically [read...] 
Fernando DiLeo wrote and directed some of the best works in the poliziotteschi (Italian crime) genre. Films like Milano Calibro 9, La Mala Ordina, Mr. Scarface and Il Boss gave viewers a very clear look at mafia life in 1970s Italy. To me DiLeo did for poliziotteschi what Leone did for spaghetti westerns, in that he brought an extremely vivid, stylized atmosphere to the genre. His brand of filmmaking as [read...] 
Over the years many films have been made about the legendary gangster Al Capone such as Scarface (1932), Al Capone (1959), The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and Capone (1975). Although Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables (1987) isn’t focused solely on Capone it is one of the best films featuring the mobster ever made. The screenplay was written by David Mamet and based on accounts in Eliot Ness’ autobiography about his [read...] 
Greetings Gangsters and Gun Molls! Welcome to the SCENES OF THE CRIME BLOG-A-THON Rendezvous! This is the home page of our celebratory online festival of crime cinema. The event will be running from DECEMBER 1, 2012 until APRIL 30, 2013 which should give participants lots of time to work with. We’ve already started a listing of categories that represent the many subgenres within the crime film family and as links [read...] 
Welcome to Furious Cinema’s movie commentary with Sebastian and Peter – your resident CineGuerrillas. This will be an ongoing series of conversations we have about movies we love. They will have a funny subtitle and include a favorite quote from a movie at the end that you can guess in the comments. They are virtual “beer and nachos” sit-downs, so you will have to imagine the smell of alcohol, the [read...] 
For this new series on FC, we’ll be looking at, or to be more precise, listening to, scores from some of our favorite furious movies to see how they tie into the scenes they are played over. Some of these installments may be just a brief basic review with a track featured in the film, or we might post cues from certain sequences that we’d like to examine a bit [read...] In the 1992 big screen adaptation of the story of Jimmy Hoffa, Jack Nicholson stars as the legendary teamster president. Danny DeVito directs and also plays Hoffa’s confidant Bobby Ciaro, a fictional character that is based on a combination of Hoffa’s real life friends. The screenplay is by David Mamet (The Untouchables, Glengarry Glenross). While the story is based on Hoffa’s real life, Mamet and DeVito added embellishments to enhance [read...] In the early 70s, movie audiences were certainly accustomed to crime films, yet when Francis Ford Coppola’s gloriously endearing mafia film was released in 1972, it clearly transcended all the rest. Featuring a cast of such acting luminaries as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall, it has since gone on to become regarded as one of the best films ever made, and rightly so. The score [read...] |
    
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