Director David Lynch is widely known for his surreal thrillers like Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive but in 1999 he made a film that couldn’t be more different than those weirdly disturbing tales. The Straight Story is based on a true story of an elderly gentlemen named Alvin […]
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And now the final entry of our Mummy review trilogy at Furious Cinema. We’ve seen the Drama/Romantic Mummy and the old-school Horror Mummy….today’s review is, well, something a little bit different. It’s not really a horror film, but more like a combination of Indiana Jones and Army of Darkness. The […]
“Mumbo Jumbo! Mumbo Jumbo!” In 1999 Director Roman Polanski returned to familiar territory with the devilishly entertaining supernatural mystery-thriller The Ninth Gate. Johnny Depp plays Dean Corso a rare book dealer who is in the business primarily to make big money and use his expertise to scam clients that don’t […]
In 1999, Filmmaker Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman took movie audiences on a new kind of existential adventure with Being John Malkovich. The film tells the tale of Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) a poor puppeteer who, needing some extra money, applies for a file clerk job at LesterCorp. There […]