FURMAN ON FILM

What’s the oldest horror trope in the book? Anyone? How ‘bout this…every horror movie begins with two (generally white) people having...

I pretty much adore most anything in which Darren Aronofsky’s involved. This really has nothing to do with Whiplash at all, except this:...

Plenty of adjectives could be used to describe Ex Machina – eerie, haunting, claustrophic, mind-bending. All are apt, and all convey a...

If I had to construct a thesis for this bad boy, it would read as follows: they just don’t make movies like this anymore. You know the...

Let me just be clear at the outset here: I wanted to dislike this film. I really did. I generally don’t like extraordinarily long...

My goodness, the hype around this film was massive! “Keaton’s career defining performance!” “Inarritu goes rogue and uses eternal steady...

"There's still some stuff in the basement." In a film chock FULL of quote board material, that's the line which hung with me after the...

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop logging comedies... Air-freaking-plane! Witness the rise of the un-holy trinity of Zucker,...

One would imagine it'd be pretty easy to make a bad film. You just fill it with awful things. What's harder, by leaps and bounds,...

It was all there in the beginning. I didn't realize it at first. On first viewing, I took Mad Max for what I thought it was, one hell of...

A thought occurred to me as I was re-watching Rocky III for the first time in many moons with a group of young male students last...

This film, to me, is the definition of a cult classic. I cannot say that I spend my days perusing mountains of listicles in the "greatest...