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Greetings Gangsters and Gun Molls! Welcome to the SCENES OF THE CRIME BLOG-A-THON Rendezvous! This is the home page of our celebratory online festival of crime cinema. The event will be running from DECEMBER 1, 2012 until APRIL 30, 2013 which should give participants lots of time to work with. We’ve already started a listing of categories that represent the many subgenres within the crime film family and as links [read...]
Furious Cinema and our partners in crime Criminal Movies and Seetimaar – Diary of A Movie Lover are very happy to announce the Scenes of The Crime Blog-A-Thon which will be held from December 1, 2012 to April 30th, 2013. We are hoping all film bloggers who love international crime cinema will take part in this online celebration with us. Reviews, Articles, Tributes, Videos are all welcome. We will also [read...]
First I have to say that I am not a big fan of the title. We had The Dark Knight, and now The Dark Knight Rises. That sounds like there are only two of them, seeing as the first movie didn’t have Dark Knight in the title. People call this the “The Dark Knight Trilogy”, but that is just inaccurate. I will start with a quick word about the first [read...]
BEWARE OF BAT-SPOILERS!!! INTRODUCTION: I grew up on Batman beginning with reading the comics and graphic novels (my favorites of those being The Dark Knight Returns, Son of Demon and The Killing Joke). At a young age I also watched reruns of the 1960s TV series which starred Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as his faithful ward/sidekick Dick Grayson/Robin. That show was the definition of the word [read...]
Korea is the new Hong Kong. Not geographically as that would take a trick of Copperfield-ean proportions but when it comes to making kick ass action movies, Korea is the place to be. For decades HK Cinema had held the crown pretty much unopposed and with good reason. This was, after all, the place that had given us Shaw Brothers Studios, Golden Harvest, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, John [read...]
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Taken stars Liam Neeson and I think this is his best role. He’s done a bunch of crappy movies in his time, but he can still be awesome as long as he’s in a good movie like this one. The basic plot is that Neeson plays a man named Bryan Mills whose daughter goes to Paris and gets kidnapped and he has [read...]
Steven Seagal is a badass. Say what you want about his career developments in the recent years, he used to epitomize badassdom, and if you trust the editing work in his movies, his hands disarm baddies quicker than a strike of lightning. Having said that we turn to a very special presentation of “the most awesome movies ever made“, a series of video presentations made in Austria about – well [read...]
Falling Down is proof that not all Joel Schumacher films suck (it’s mainly just his Batman movies). This is a great film that I believe should be known as a classic, among the ranks of Scarface, Die Hard and other timeless must see movies. (That is the quick review should you read no more.) “Falling Down” is a self proclaimed “tale of urban reality”, which has a meaning that becomes [read...]
“Harry Brown” stars Michael Caine, a respected older actor who has been acting on stage, television and movies for over 60 years. He has no gaps in his resume, in fact his fame has accumulated moreso in recent years. The main premise of the story is that of the vigilante. Vigilante movies are sort of their own sub-category. Other vigilante movies are ones like the Death Wish series starring Charles [read...]
After directing the low budget cult classics Evil Dead 1 and 2, Director Sam Raimi signed on to make his first big studio feature. It was a film based on a short story he wrote that paid tribute to some of his favorite Universal horror films such as The Invisible Man and Frankenstein. Darkman was a blending of the crime, horror, comedy and super hero genres that exploded onto the [read...]
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