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Fresh off the success of the award winning masterpiece The Godfather (1972), Robert Duvall took a role in this film playing Earl Macklin, a convict who is being released back into society after a stretch in prison. Macklin doesn’t know yet that as he’s breathing in the fresh air of freedom, his brother Eddie has been shot down at his farmhouse by two hitmen. Macklin is picked up by his [read...] 
Bobby O’Grady (Denis Leary) is an Irish-American hood from Boston. We are introduced to him as he and his buddy Mouse (Ian Hart) are racing a couple of stolen cars back to a fence (Lenny Clarke) where they’ll collect some cash for their trouble. Later on they meet up with Digger (John Diehl) a studdering cabbie and Bobby’s cousin Seamus (Jason Barry) who is from Ireland. They drink, snort coke [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...] 
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...] 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...] 
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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