Unnervingly prescient, Joe, even though it was made more than forty years ago, is a film for today. An unflinching character study, at the time of its release, Joe became a controversial reference point. It’s not so much that we know that there are Joe’s in the world, it’s the […]
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“Don’t misconstrue this. I’m not displaying character. Just temporary insanity.” A movie that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle when it comes to examples of great 80s sci-fi cinema is Peter Hyams’ 1981 space western OUTLAND. The story takes place on Jupiter’s moon Io where a titanium mining colony (“Con […]
“Turn it off! Turn if off! TURN IT OFF!” Paul Schrader followed up his intense directorial debut Blue Collar with this story about a businessman from Grand Rapids, Michigan named Jake Van Dorn (George C Scott) whose teenage daughter Kristen goes missing while on a religious themed trip to California. […]
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”. This declaration is, of course, not only a motto here at Furious Cinema, it’s a memorable quote from the 1976 film Network. Although this a line that is said by TV host Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in […]
Created to appeal to fans of The Godfather series, the little-known Crazy Joe (1974) tells the “true life” story of Italian mobster “Crazy” Joe Gallo, a verbose, beleaguered (he spent seven years in jail) and eventually deposed key player in the infamous Colombo crime family. At once a peek at […]
Mel Brooks has made some of the most hilarious comedies in cinema from The Producers to Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein (1974) is what I like to call the “Citizen Kane of horror film parodies”. Gene Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein the grandson of the infamous mad scientist Victor Frankenstein. Unlike his […]
“This life’s HARD man, but it’s HARDER if you’re stupid!” – Jackie Brown As you know by now, here at Furious Cinema, we love the crime genre and all the subgenres within it. From tales of ruthless revenge to powerful police procedurals to highly charged heist pictures. One of our […]
FILM REVIEW When we first see Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) he walks into a taxi cab stand as a ghostly cloud of steam evaporates around him. It’s an entrance of some kind of angel from hell. Travis suffers from insomnia, so he rides around on buses and subways at night. […]