“Better to be king for a night than shmuck for a lifetime” – Rupert Pupkin On March 25th, Fox Home Entertainment will be releasing Martin Scorsese’s THE KING OF COMEDY on Blu Ray. Robert DeNiro stars as Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring comedian obsessed with becoming the next big sensation. Jerry […]
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“You two are the dumbest bounty hunters I have ever seen!” One of our favorite subgenres at FC is the road movie and so we’ve picked Martin Brest’s 1988 action crime comedy Midnight Run for today’s mad as hell trailer. Robert DeNiro stars as Jack Walsh, a Los Angeles based […]
One of Director Brian DePalma’s seminal works is the 1987 gangster classic The Untouchables. The story, which is based on a book by Eliot Ness, follows the group of men he put together to take down the infamous mobster Al Capone and break his powerful grip on the city of […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROBERT DeNIRO (Born August 17, 1943). For over 40 years Mr. DeNiro has been thrilling movie viewers with his incredibly intense often FURIOUS performances. He is known for essentially becoming the characters he plays by getting to the truth of who they are through methods such as […]
Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (1983) is a film that has often been overlooked by many critics and average movie watchers. Yet those of us who are fans and know it well consider it one of his very best works. Robert DeNiro stars as Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring stand […]
Over the years many films have been made about the legendary gangster Al Capone such as Scarface (1932), Al Capone (1959), The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and Capone (1975). Although Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables (1987) isn’t focused solely on Capone it is one of the best films featuring the […]
Welcome to Furious Cinema’s movie commentary with Sebastian and Peter – your resident CineGuerrillas. This will be an ongoing series of conversations we have about movies we love. They will have a funny subtitle and include a favorite quote from a movie at the end that you can guess in […]
Following his role in J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 psychological thriller Cape Fear actor Gregory Peck was in Robert Mulligan’s classic drama TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1963, USA). In that film, Peck played a small town southern lawyer who represents a black man in a controversial court case. He was brilliant […]
Every movie geek has a collection of crown film jewels that they go back to when things are getting too watered down, fake or boring. These are like gifts that keep on giving and can be replayed over and over and always deliver that much needed dose of cinematic excitement […]
Michael Cimino’s second film The Deer Hunter (1978) is his finest hour as a filmmaker. Unfortunately he would never again reach the same kind of critical acclaim he received from it. The story is an equally beautiful, haunting and tragic look at the effects war has on people’s lives. It’s very […]