Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978) – Director: Irvin Kershner – 4/10 (passable/mediocre) The motion picture is cumbered with two crucial shortcomings: firstly, the storyline does not feature any character development and most of it heavily relies on jump scares as well as implausible turnabouts intended to secrete the overarching scripting […]
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Welcome back to our Legendary Musicians In Movies week! This time we’ll take a look at another Rock ‘n Roll pioneer from the 50’s. Although this guy might not be as famous as Elvis on the worldwide scale, he was one of the very first white people who became famous […]
On September 11th, Warner Archive will release John Milius’ 1978 coming of age epic BIG WEDNESDAY on BluRay. 40 years later, this story based on Milius’ youth surfing in Southern California remains one of his finest works. FC Synopsis: Big Wednesday tells the coming of age tale of three friends Matt […]
After George Romero began his trilogy in 1968 with the critically acclaimed Night of The Living Dead, 10 years later he brought us not only one of the best Zombie films of all time, but also a slick social commentary disguised as gory Horror/Adventure film. That’s right. I’m talking about […]
On August 2nd, SHOUT FACTORY will be releasing a special Collector’s Edition Blu Ray of Philip Kaufman’s 1978 update of the sci-fi horror classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS – BUY FROM AMAZON Set in San Francisco, the plot revolves around a city health inspector Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) and […]
Year of Furious Films is our newest series on FC where we’ll be choosing our favorite films from each designated year. You may notice that we won’t be going in chronological order, it’ll be more random, but that’s really part of the fun. We’ll be covering a wide array of […]
A little bit The Godfather, a little bit Taxi Driver, 1978’s Fingers (perhaps it was the odd title?) came and went without much notice. Regardless, director James Toback’s unflinching look at dashed dreams, dysfunctional family dynamics and life’s many frustrations remains an intriguing, if ponderous, cinematic endeavor. As Jimmy Angelelli […]
Director Walter Hill is one of our heroes at Furious Cinema, so thats why we’ll be commenting on many of his film trailers in the future. I wanted to start out with his 1978 crime action thriller neo noir The Driver because we haven’t covered it on the site yet […]
FILM REVIEW Andrew V. McLaglen’s thrilling action-adventure film The Wild Geese (1978) follows an aging group of mercenaries led by Col. Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton) who are hired by a shady merchant banker named Sir Edward Matheson (Stewart Granger) to rescue Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona) an imprisoned African leader who […]
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, […]