While US Senator Chapman (Charles Durning), his love interest and secretary Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross) and an advisor take a break from politics on their boat off the coast of Honolulu late in the year 1941, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen), an advisor for a military contractor, joins Captain Yelland (Dirk […]
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a strange film: even by the standards of Film Noir. Barbara (Double Indemnity) Stanwyck is the titular character, a hardened-by-life rich woman who inherited her dead Aunt’s estate amidst dubious circumstances. You see, as a child, in a fit of rage, willful Martha […]
Every now and then we at Furious Cinema turn to one of our favorite classic genres, the western. We’ve previously posted a list of 50 Furious Westerns, and to build on that, we’re launching a series of in-depth looks at some classics of the genre. No rules. POSSE (1975) Directed […]
In May Criterion will be releasing two films from the Golden Age of Hollywood in all new Blu Ray Collector’s Editions. Howard Hawks’ Western RED RIVER and Billy Wilder’s ACE IN THE HOLE. Both will feature hi-def restorations and a slew of special features. RED RIVER (1948): One of […]
The Last Sunset (1961) – imdb, Director: Robert Aldrich. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten. Release title in Germany: “El Perdido” “Are you a Killer?” she asks him. A question so innocent and yet, in the middle of the desert, almost a banality. In savage places, the […]
Shout Factory is continuing its streak of exciting and eclectic Blu Ray releases with SATURN 3, a 1980 Sci-Fi Thriller directed by Stanley Donen (Singin In the Rain) which will be released on December 3rd. Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel star together, and if you think it sounds […]
With his 1978 supernatural action-thriller The Fury, Director Brian DePalma dealt with a subject he had explored previously in Carrie: telekinesis. The story involves a newly retired special government agent named Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) whose teenage son Robin (Andrew Stevens) has special powers (although we aren’t sure exactly what […]