What is “Punk Rock”? To some its merely great rock ‘n’ roll, to others it’s an attitude or lifestyle. Punk Rock DJ/Historian/Filmmaker Don Lett’s documentary Punk: Attitude is a tremendously satisfying journey through the years Punk Rock was KING (approx 1976-1981). Punk can be traced back to the days of Chuck […]
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From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O’Brien’s groundbreaking public access cable TV program TV Party was the face of the New York Art/New Wave/Punk scene. Glenn had written for magazines such as Rolling Stone, Playboy and Esquire then went on to write for High Times Magazine as well as Andy Warhol’s […]
For fans of furious punk rock music THE DAMNED (Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies, Brian James) are one of the all time greatest bands to ever come along. A new 110 minute documentary on the legends entitled THE DAMNED: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead directed by Wes […]
Furious Cinema is a website that focuses primarily on movies but we’ve always been, in some way, inspired by the DIY/anti-corporate ethic that punk rock was founded on. The spirit of punk has been around since the early days of rock, but in the late 60s/early 70s, kids who were […]
Leave it to the fine folks at Criterion to pull yet another hat trick in the new year with what I consider to be the ultimate home video release of Alex Cox’s 1984 cult sci-fi comedy-punk rock masterpiece REPO MAN. Now if you’re a film geek who grew up in […]
In 1986, Alex Cox who had previously directed the sci-fi-comedy cult classic Repo Man shifted focus to another punk rock themed story, this time taking on the real life legend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious who was charged with killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen after which he died from […]
Based on the life of the lead singer of one of punk/new waves most treasured bands: Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Andy Serkis (known to Lord of the Rings fans as Gollum) takes on another unique role as the late frontman. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) takes Ian […]
In 1974 films like Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Godfather Part II and Roman Polanski‘s Chinatown were big hits at the box office but you also had films like Jack Hill’s Blaxploitation film Foxy Brown blasting out onto the screens of Drive ins and Grindhouses. There was definitely a big change […]