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When I was told about the Howard Hawks Blogathon by my friend Ratnakar of Seetimaar – Diary of a Movie Lover I was really happy because Hawks is a filmmaker I’ve been a fan of for many years now. I think what made Hawks’ work appealing to me was the fact he could take any genre and entertain you through his mastery of it. Whether it was comedy, adventure, western [read...] 
Ernest Borgnine is an actor that over the years I’ve come to appreciate more and more. His tenacious persona in the many films and television shows he acted in impressed me from a young age. I think my first introduction to “Ernie” (as he liked to be called) was McHale’s Navy (1962-66) the classic World War II era sitcom. I was too young to watch it on its original run, [read...] 
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...] 
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...] 
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...] 
During the Civil War, somewhere in the state of Louisiana, a Union soldier John McBirney (Clint Eastwood) is seriously injured in battle and on the verge of succumbing to his wounds. Luckily he is discovered by a young girl Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin) who is able to get him back to the all girls boarding school run by Ms. Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) where she resides. As McBirney slowly recuperates with [read...] 
At FC we’re big fans of films like The Green Berets, Navy SEALS, GI Jane and other special forces classics. The upcoming action-adventure film Act of Valor looks like it’ll be quite a furious and cool addition to this subgenre! Created by filmmakers Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, Act of Valor was originally intended to be a simple recruitment video for the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command but later transformed [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...] 
The typical war movie is usually about soldiers that fight to uphold democracy and justice in the face of tyranny and focuses on the themes of honor and duty to country. Last Memorial Day in honor of all fallen soldiers we put together a 50 Furious War Film List which contained a nice selection of our favorite WWII, Korean Conflict and Vietnam movies. FC’s Sebastian previously covered another subgenre of [read...] |
    
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