Unlike post-apocalyptic films which Seb covered HERE, the dystopian subgenre focuses on a world that has been dramatically changed due to such problems as failing economy, over crowding, crime, bio-chemical plagues and religion. The opposite of a utopia (paradise), these societies are usually extremely repressed and run under Governmental, Alien […]
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Happy Holidays from your favorite mad as hell movie geeks at Furious Cinema! Every year during the holiday season we’re subjected to the same old line up of holiday films on TV, you know the drill: It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty The […]
Like many kids in the 80s generation, this film was my introduction to one of the coolest genre specialists working in movies: Paul Verhoeven. When I watched Robocop for the first time I knew it had something different going on. From the characters, to the setting to the humor, it […]
Martians, UFOs and extra-terrestrials these are just some of words that we use when discussing those otherworldly beings known as aliens. In the 1950s, movie audiences were looking for new outlandish thrills from Hollywood and that’s when the science fiction genre really took off. What followed was the first wave […]
“This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it…then its won.” – R.J. MacReady In Howard […]
I’m not a fan of remakes of classic films as I’ve explained in detail here, but there’s always exceptions and the 1976 Dino DeLaurentiis produced version of King Kong remains one of my favorites. Compared to Peter Jackson’s 2005 critically acclaimed farce, I still think this film is much better. […]
From smokin’ hot sex bombs to super tough female empowerment icons to twisted psycho broads (and sometimes combinations of all three!). Join us as we pay tribute to some of cinema’s most furious female film characters! NOTE TO READERS: This list is not in best to worst order, these are […]
Movies just wouldn’t be as exciting if they didn’t contain those colorfully warped characters known as “villains”. Often times these people are merely twisted, lonely, misunderstood souls that have been psychologically damaged and/or are out for revenge. Then there’s the flat out, pure evil ones who have nothing driving them […]
Furious Cinema would like to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WILLIAM SHATNER! “Ahh Kirk my old friend, do you know the klingon proverb that tells us that Revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold in space…” – Khan Noonien Singh Revenge. There’s really nothing like a […]
Chances are if you love movies, a good portion of some of your favorite titles were released in the decade that brought us a new wave of rebellious, edgy groundbreaking counter-culture cinema made by daring auteurs that had an eye for telling stories filled with excitement and thrills. Furious Cinema […]