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When I was told about the Howard Hawks Blogathon by my friend Ratnakar of Seetimaar – Diary of a Movie Lover I was really happy because Hawks is a filmmaker I’ve been a fan of for many years now. I think what made Hawks’ work appealing to me was the fact he could take any genre and entertain you through his mastery of it. Whether it was comedy, adventure, western [read...] 
At a small greasy spoon, Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and his best friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) eat spaghetti, drink coffee and chit chat. While reading a newspaper Rico notices a headline about a Chicago gangster named Pete Montana (Ralph Ince) and realizes that he wants to be famous too. He goes to see Sam Vettori (Stanley Fields) a crime boss who works out of the [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...] 
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...] 
The crime film is one of the greatest genres to provide audiences with a mainline to adrenaline charged action drama and emotion. If you don’t go for all the fantasy CGI and 3D cinema, Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming old school cops vs. criminals film Gangster Squad (the title even sounds like a pulp novel) might be for you. It looks like a throwback to classics we love like Once Upon a [read...] 
“When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?” – Frank Costello Director Martin Scorsese made his mark in cinema telling furious tales about criminals. He began his career [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...] |
    
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