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Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (1983) is a film that has often been overlooked by many critics and average movie watchers. Yet those of us who are fans and know it well consider it one of his very best works. Robert DeNiro stars as Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring stand up comedian. When we first meet him he’s waiting in line to catch a glimpse of the popular Johnny Carson-esque [read...] 
Over the years many films have been made about the legendary gangster Al Capone such as Scarface (1932), Al Capone (1959), The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and Capone (1975). Although Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables (1987) isn’t focused solely on Capone it is one of the best films featuring the mobster ever made. The screenplay was written by David Mamet and based on accounts in Eliot Ness’ autobiography about his [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...] 
Following his role in J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 psychological thriller Cape Fear actor Gregory Peck was in Robert Mulligan’s classic drama TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1963, USA). In that film, Peck played a small town southern lawyer who represents a black man in a controversial court case. He was brilliant as the gentle loving father and upstanding public servant who evoked American historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and it was [read...] 
Every movie geek has a collection of crown film jewels that they go back to when things are getting too watered down, fake or boring. These are like gifts that keep on giving and can be replayed over and over and always deliver that much needed dose of cinematic excitement you need. The characters are your friends, so when you see them again it’s like hanging [read...] 
Michael Cimino’s second film The Deer Hunter (1978) is his finest hour as a filmmaker. Unfortunately he would never again reach the same kind of critical acclaim he received from it. The story is an equally beautiful, haunting and tragic look at the effects war has on people’s lives. It’s very much about innocence lost as three friends (Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Savage) become forever [read...] 
The industrial steel town of Clairton, PA and the community of Russian-Americans who reside there provide the primary backdrop for Michael Cimino’s existential war epic The Deer Hunter. The lives of the main characters are clearly repetitious. They work at the local steel mill, clock out, hit the bar, guzzle Rolling Rocks, act like nuts, then go home and do it all over again. Two life changing events are about [read...] 
Brown. Jackie Brown. Quentin Tarantino’s throwback to the blaxploitation days is a magnificent LA tale that split the critics and the fans, but is by some considered to be the director’s finest movie. We take a look back at this cult favorite (based on a novel by Elmore Leonard), made possible by the recent availability on BluRay. Click the following soundclip to have some soundtrack grooves while you read…. INTRODUCTION [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...] 
“Being right is not a bulletproof vest Freddy!” – Figgs James Mangold‘s 1997 film Copland comes from a different angle in the crime genre taking the good guy/bad guy plotline and flipping it on its ear by dealing with themes of corruption within the police force. In the town of Garrison, New Jersey, a community made up of cops has been established by the ‘tough as nails’ Ray Donlan (Harvey [read...] |
    
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