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Valentines Day is the time when the geekiest of geeks turn to thoughts of romance and matters of the heart. Throughout the years movies have become a big part of that celebration, for instance you may go to dinner then watch a favorite film with the special someone in your life. For our latest list I’ve chosen 10 titles that are a mix of traditional and non traditional “romantic” themed [read...] 
Welcome to the third installment of CineFusion Weekly, our column where we highlight interesting stuff from our little website universe, past and present. Open a cold one, put your feet up, unplug the phone and discover some furious cinema with us. MAD AS HELL MOVIE MUSIC: Repo Man (Main Theme) by Iggy Pop FROM THE TARANTINO ARCHIVES: Quentin is a huge fan of classic Phillipino exploitation cinema and we’ve got [read...] 
Seasons Greetings from your film geek friends at Furious Cinema! This year we’ve decided to expand our shopping guide a bit more than last year and point out some especially cool products we feel you should pick up for your loved ones as stocking stuffers before Xmas arrives. There’s a nice selection of films, books and other items that are sure to put a smile on that movie lover’s face [read...] 
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...] 
Artist James O’Barr’s The Crow was originally a series of indie comics that were published in the late 80s and later turned into a comprehensive graphic novel. It told the tale of Eric Draven, a Detroit based rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancee Shelly on Devil’s Night. A year later Eric rises from the grave to seek vengeance on the criminals who were responsible for their deaths. [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...] 
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 Sandza’s associate/friend Childress (John Cassavetes) sets up a hit on him so [read...] 
Marlene Dietrich stars as a super-sexy traveling cabaret singer named “Bijou Blanche” in this 1940 romantic-adventure classic. At the opening of the film, we see the after effects of Bijou’s steamy, stimulating performance at a bar in Shanghai, a huge brawl erupts and Bijou has to take off for her next stop. Bijou travels with two companions: Little Ned Finnegan (Broderick Crawford) and a magician named Rubio (Antonio Moreno). Bijou [read...] 
There’s nothing like a good road movie! This type of cinematically fertile subject matter has been perfect for filmmakers to create entertaining genre stories revolving around folks in varying situations that have them on the move. Our list covers several kinds of cinematic excursions, from existential hippie trips to crazy cross-country comedies to stories about dangerous outlaws on the run. Easy Rider (1969, Dir: Dennis Hopper) Super hippies Captain America [read...] 
Director Sergio Leone once said that music makes up 40% of a movie. That is certainly true for his films in which his composer the legendary Ennio Morricone created a unique musical landscape of sound that would take film scores to entirely new level and inspire generations of musicians both in film and in pop music. The art of film scoring and the use of soundtracks have become such an [read...] |
    
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