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 […]
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We couldn’t do our Don Siegel retrospective without reviewing the film that features one of the international icons of popular cinema… Clint Eastwood plays “Dirty” Harry Callahan a rebellious San Francisco police homicide inspector who is investigating the killing of a woman by a serial killer called Scorpio (Andrew Robinson) […]
Two years after making the film noir classic Out of The Past (1947) together, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer co-starred in this South of The Border crime adventure. Mitchum plays U.S. Army Lieutenant Duke Halliday, who is robbed of a $300,000 payroll he is carrying by a fast talking shyster […]
Two hitmen, Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) are hired to track down and kill Johnny North (John Cassavetes) by an unknown client. When they find North he is teaching auto repair at a school for the blind. Right away it is apparent these two assassins mean business as […]
From the opening moments of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1992) when New York Police Officer “L.T.” (Harvey Keitel) drives his bratty kids to school we can see he is a furious human being. As he watches the kids leave he sneaks a few snorts of coke just to wake himself […]
What we now know as the “biker movie” genre began with Roger Corman’s The Wild Angels (1966) which starred Peter Fonda as a furious, “sickle” riding hellion. Throughout the rest of the late 60s and into the 70s there were hundreds of these kinds of chopper operas made for drive-in […]
The late director Ted Demme’s final film turned out to be his best. It was a spectacular work of crime cinema based on the true story of George Jung, an infamous cocaine smuggler who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 80s. We are introduced to George in his childhood […]
The 1970s had a torrent of awesome cinema as we covered in one of our first features on FC, 50 Furious Films: The 1970s. Crime movies in particular seemed to be especially popular during that time. There was a kind of resurgence in the genre which started in the late […]
FILM REVIEW In Los Angeles, a stuntman/mechanic (Ryan Gosling) has a second job at night as a getaway driver for petty crimes. In the opening moments of the movie we witness just how precisely he operates. His view on this kind of work is simple and by the book. He […]
No siree, these aren’t your everyday do-gooders that pull cats out of trees and help old ladies cross the street. These are the dark, scarred, lone scavengers of film. They are also some of the all time coolest complex, mysterious characters who blur a grey line between what we consider […]