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BLU RELEASES: Death Hunt

One of our favorite furious films, Peter R. Hunt’s 1981 action-adventure DEATH HUNT is coming to Blu Ray from Shout Factory August 20th. Special Features will include an Audio interview with stars Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, German Trailer, Original US Trailer and a Photo Gallery. Based on true events Charles Bronson stars as Albert Johnson, a Canadian trapper who rescues an injured German Shepherd from Hazel (Ed Lauter) a [read...]

BLU RELEASES: Clint Eastwood 20 Film Collection

For over 40 years Clint Eastwood has had a truly illustrious film career both in front of and behind the camera. On June 4th, Warner Home Video will be releasing a 20 film retrospective Blu Ray box set of some of the very best of his work. This will be a great opportunity for all the longtime Furious Eastwood fans who haven’t already bought these films separately to get them [read...]

BLU RELEASES: Badlands

Terrence Malick’s directorial debut masterpiece BADLANDS (1973) will be released in a new high definition Blu Ray edition from Criterion March 19th 2013. Martin Sheen stars as Kit, a James Dean-esque young man who falls in love with a doe eyed high school girl named Holly (Sissy Spacek). When her strict father (Warren Oates) becomes aware of their relationship the two are forbidden to see each other. Kit rebels by [read...]

BLU RELEASES: Westworld

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Writer-Director Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi/western cult classic WESTWORLD is set in the “near future” where the technological advances have helped to create a new kind of adult themed amusement park called DELOS is populated by computerized androids who appear to be human and are used to bring visitor’s fantasies to life. DELOS is comprised of three separate worlds vacationers can inhabit: Medieval World (Ancient Europe), Roman World (Ancient Rome) and [read...]

Furious Film Fans present The Liebster Award

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      Furious Cinema would just like to thank our fellow film fanatic Aurora at Once Upon A Screen & Citizen Screenings for giving us our first blog award. We really appreciate this kind welcome to the movie blogging community. We are committed to celebrating film and our hope is to inspire movie lovers to watch and explore what’s out there whether it be new or old. The [read...]

BLU RELEASES: Wake In Fright

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Regarded as one of Australian Cinema’s most famous cult films next to Mad Max (1979) Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 psychological thriller Wake In Fright debuted at the Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme D’Or and was lauded by a then unknown filmmaker named Martin Scorsese who was in attendance. Since then it has developed a controversial reputation. Many Aussies despise the film for its negative portrayal [read...]

Warner Archives: South of The Border Adventures

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One of the subgenres of the Western is known as the Zapata Western and these stories took place specifically during the Mexican Revolution. Some of the most well known titles would include Italian entries like Sergio Leone’s Duck You Sucker (aka Fistful of Dynamite), Damiano Damiani’s A Bullet For the General as well as American classics like Viva Zapata! and The Professionals. The Five Man Army (1969) Directed by Don [read...]

BLU RELEASES: The Wild Geese

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Severin Films the label that brought us the explosive DVD/Blu Ray release of Enzo G. Castellari’s Macaroni Combat cult classic Inglorious Bastards has got another men on a mission film on the way, this time it’s Andrew V. McLaglen’s 1978 mercenary masterpiece THE WILD GEESE starring Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger. We previously picked this film as part of our 10 Mad As Hell Mercenary Films [read...]

BLU RELEASES: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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One of the all time greatest road comedies is coming to Blu Ray. Writer-Director John Hughes‘ classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) is a movie that, over the years has gained a huge fanbase due to it’s hilarious lead performances from two master funnymen: the late John Candy and Steve Martin. The story takes place during the Thanksgiving holiday. Martin plays Neil Page an advertising exec who is rushing from [read...]

BLU RELEASES: An Ocean of Epic Adventure

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      The Poseidon Adventure – One of the 1970s classic disaster movies which starred a young Gene Hackman as a new age preacher who must lead a group of passengers on to safety when a storm capsizes their ocean liner. What made this film so special was the group of lovable actors that were thrown into the critical situation together. Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Pamela [read...]