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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...] 
Director Kathryn Bigelow has been making furious films for decades now. The first movie I ever saw by her was Blue Steel (1989) a tense thriller about a female police officer (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a psychotic stalker (Ron Silver). Then in 1991 came Point Break an action packed crime film about a hot shot FBI agent (Keanu Reeves) who goes undercover as a surfer to track down a gang [read...] 
There are always movies that go on to become part of our collective pop culture memory because they hit on certain issues happening when they were made. John Milius’ Red Dawn in particular captured a certain moment in time when the United States and Russia were at the height of the Nuclear Arms race and fears of armageddon were actually relevant. I was 10 when the film was released but [read...] 
One of the picks on our Mad As Hell Movies of 2012 list from earlier this year was Andrew Dominik’s Cogan’s Trade. That title was later changed to the more flashy Killing Them Softly. Based on a 1974 novel by George Higgins, the story focuses on a pointman for the mob named Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) and his investigation into a robbery of a poker game by a pair of [read...] 
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper stars as Nada, a mysterious drifter who arrives one day in Los Angeles looking to start a new life. He soon gets a job working construction and finds a place to stay thanks to the help of Frank Armitage (Keith David) one of the crew that spots him hanging around. Nada is an easy going fella who enjoys the simple things in life like a good meal [read...] 
Sometimes you just want to watch a mad as hell film crammed with revenge, fighting, blazing guns and general furiosity. In Taken we got that in spades. Liam Neeson played a guy whose daughter is kidnapped while on a vacation in Europe and he has to find her. The catch being he wasn’t just some normal goofy dad, he was a master counter-terrorism/intel expert with a myriad of tools at [read...] 
Based on a 2004 novel by David Mitchell, the upcoming sci-fi epic Cloud Atlas is the latest film from The Wachowski Siblings (The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer) and their co-writer-director Tom Twyker (Run Lola Run). One look at this new trailer and it’s clear that this will be yet another mindbending journey filled with excitement and thrills. The visuals are stunning and the story couldn’t be any more expansive and [read...] 
After watching his last invigorating work of cinema There Will Be Blood I was really looking forward to Paul Thomas Anderson’s next project. Well, now we’ve got a new trailer for the anxiously anticipated follow up entitled The Master. First, there’s two brilliant actors Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the lead parts, so that alone would make you curious to see it. Then there’s the subject matter: A [read...] 
We’re back with another mad as hell edition of CineFusion, FC’s own weekly in-blog newsletter that we’re using to compile some of the cool film related things (past, present and future) that give us pleasure. This week’s furious highlights include: counterculture comedians, a Martial Arts Legend, a dark knight, and two early 80s cinema gems FROM THE TARANTINO ARCHIVES: Before DVD distributors began releasing long forgotten B-movie classics en masse, [read...] 
We’re back with another mad as hell edition of CineFusion, FC’s own weekly in-blog newsletter that we’re using to compile some of the cool film related things (past, present and future) that give us pleasure. This week’s furious highlights include: Two brilliant film related artists, expert card sharks, more american graffiti and a hagsploitation classic! FROM THE TARANTINO ARCHIVES: We all know QT is an unabashed fan of exploitation films, [read...] |
    
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