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 […]
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As part of our Month of Horror we’ve dug through the Furious Cinema music library and put together a custom mix of some of our favorite tracks from a variety of creepy classics. So Press Play, Turn up the Volume and Enjoy! TRACK LISTING They’re Coming To Get You Barbara […]
Whenever I think of the film scores of the 1970s, I always have three specific themes that stand out in my mind. Of course there were lots of incredible soundtracks and music made for movies in that decade but these were composed by the same artist, David Shire. What’s especially […]
In the 1980s Hip Hop became the biggest underground musical movement to explode out of the inner cities. It was a multimedia based culture which included artistic entertainment/expression such as breakdancing, emceeing, graffiti, fashion, and turntablism. Following its initial entry into the realm of pop culture it was featured in […]
The Blaxploitation era not only gave us some really fun and exciting genre cinema it produced some of the greatest pop music to come out of the 1970s. These supercool, superbad, superfunky sounds are exactly what we mean when we use the term FURIOUS With some help from our sister […]
Richard Fleischer’s 1973 dystopian sci-fi classic SOYLENT GREEN is set in the year 2022 where the climate has been ruined by the greenhouse effect, oceans are dying out and poverty has skyrocketed. The city of New York has become overpopulated (40 million citizens) and alternate rations are being supplied by […]
Today is the late great Robert Mitchum’s birthday (Born August 6, 1917) so we wanted to pay tribute with a special post about one of our favorite films from his career, the 1958 southern fried crime drama THUNDER ROAD. Mitchum plays Luke Doolin, a Korean War vet who returns to […]
Lalo Schifrin is one of the most original and prolific musician/composers in pop music/film history. My personal introduction to his work was when I heard the iconic main theme to the 1960s Mission Impossible TV series. That score, next to the James Bond theme and Morricone‘s The Good The Bad […]
Beverly Hills Cop is one of our favorite furious films of the 80s. Eddie Murphy plays Detective Axel Foley, a rebellious Detroit cop who travels out to Beverly Hills to investigate the death of his childhood friend Mikey (James Russo) who was murdered while visiting him. Working in association with […]