CRIMEWATCH: Once Upon A Time in America
INTRODUCTION Sergio Leone. Whenever I hear that name I think of cinema at its most exhillerating and wildly creative. His take on Westerns single...
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50 FURIOUS FILMS: THE 1970s
Chances are if you love movies, a good portion of some of your favorite titles were released in the decade that brought us a...
Berlinale review: Tropa de Elite 2
In 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival (aka the Berlinale; /ber-lee-nah-lae/) a Brazilian movie that depicted the work of Rio de Janeiro’s special...
POSTERS: Cool Hand Luke
“Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand” We’d like to kick off our latest feature on Furious Cinema with the theatrical poster from one...
Booze, Broads & Broken Bones: ROAD HOUSE
One of the most highly rewatchable films from the late 1980s is Rowdy Herrington’s Good Ol’ Boy action film ROAD HOUSE (1989). I remember...
CRIMEWATCH: Straight Time
In Ulu Grossbard’s crime film/character study Straight Time (1978) Dustin Hoffman stars as Max Dembo a career criminal who is newly released from prison....
CRIMEWATCH: King of New York
“This country spends $100 billion a year on getting high, and it’s not because of me. All that time I was wasting in jail,...
Danny DeVito’s HOFFA
In the 1992 big screen adaptation of the story of Jimmy Hoffa, Jack Nicholson stars as the legendary teamster president. Danny DeVito directs and...
Furious Sounds That Rocked Cinema Pt. 6: Mafiosi Masterpiece
In the early 70s, movie audiences were certainly accustomed to crime films, yet when Francis Ford Coppola’s gloriously endearing mafia film was released in...
Red Rock West vs. U-Turn
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. I am here today to write to you about a movie that is held very highly among many movie geeks,...
