“This town needs an enema!” – Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman If you’re a film geek it’s sometimes tough to sit and watch the machine of moviemaking in Hollywood burp out one lousy film after another. It’s not that we want to complain, but it just […]
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While watching one of my all time favorite films this past week, Robert Zemeckis’ 1980 screwball classic auto-comedy USED CARS, I discovered a connection. It wasn’t with another film that has a similar theme but something else I’ve been thinking a lot about, specifically what’s currently going on in the […]
There’s an inherent irony in film censorship: if some films are so abhorrent and individuals guaranteed to be damaged by watching them that they require censorship or prohibition on their exhibition / dissemination, then why aren’t the censors affected? If there were any truth to the ideology behind censorship – […]
I’m not a fan of remakes of classic films as I’ve explained in detail here, but there’s always exceptions and the 1976 Dino DeLaurentiis produced version of King Kong remains one of my favorites. Compared to Peter Jackson’s 2005 critically acclaimed farce, I still think this film is much better. […]
If you read a lot about movies and directors, there is a good chance you have come across the species commonly known as “Costner basher”. Now, to be clear, I love to bash certain people, and it is one of the declared goals of Furious Cinema to do just that […]
“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s ANOTHER REBOOT!” Superman: That name brings to mind three things right away usually: the colors red and blue…and the letter S. You also have to throw in him being a defender of truth, justice, honor and the American […]
I’m a film geek. I’ve been watching them on a regular basis since the early 80s. I’m in my mid 30s now and I still love movies. I love going to the theater and watching films at home (which I do more often these days). DVDs and Blu Rays: Those […]
Yes it’s rant time again. This time I will have to mention a filmmaker that this website more than loves. Martin Scorsese. Sorry Marty, but you gave me the idea for this rant. I love the new HBO show Boardwalk Empire that you got off the ground together with Mark […]
A year back, I was traveling back from Chicago to Delhi, on the Air India flight. It was a long flight, close to 14 hrs, and one of the few good things was that Air India’s movies section had a good collection of classic cinema. So I just settled down into […]