FURMAN ON FILM

Aliens is about as impressive a coming out party as you will ever find for a director. But it is decidedly that. For after the modest...

Are there any original takes for forty plus year old movies? It's kind of hard to imagine, especially for one as airtight as this one....

I almost wish the studio had used the original title of David Mamet's screenplay from which this was adapted - Sexual Perversity in...

This review may contain spoilers. Manhunter is just about peak Mann. It contains all of his thematic infatuations and a leading man who...

Though a part of the same cinematic universe, there are worlds of difference between The Terminator and T2. While the latter is massive...

Never before have Sorkin's Newsroom and Sports Night made such sense to me. I'm tempted to deny their status as "homages" to this...

Die Hard is the greatest action movie of all time. Don't believe me? Take off your shoes (and socks), don the nearest white tank, grab a...

I once thought this film was a sickly depraved nightmare. Now, I believe it to be much closer to a bona fide masterpiece. This doesn't...

Is there a director who more clearly calls to mind the "you either love him or hate him" designation than The Thin Red Line's own Terence...

This is likely the best entirely too long, flagrantly overstuffed (and at times overacted), never still cacophony of connected...

Look, I get it. Cameron Crowe doesn't make perfect films. EXCEPT!...when Cameron Crowe makes perfect films. Except for this one time when...

I wish I could say that this was anything short of a masterpiece. I wish I could say that it wasn't the best movie of the Aught's, or of...