FURMAN ON FILM

In the past few days, I’ve taken myself on a little 80’s war film odyssey. I began with the great Full Metal Jacket. Then came Oliver...

It seems to me that viewers of Full Metal Jacket typically fall into one of several camps. There are those who ride or die for “the boot...

The “seeds” of greatness - nuanced, idiosyncratic characters, highfalutin dialogue, harebrained criminal schemes, pitch black themes (ie...

It just gets most of the minors from the terrific novel right and a handful of the majors all wrong. Case in point, Demi is terrifically...

I just adore this film. It's actually a little bit funny. When I first saw this in my mid 20's, as a nascent cinephile in the making, I...

Happy to report what to many is probably painfully obvious - on rewatch four decades later, The Thing is STILL a stone cold masterpiece....

The funny thing is…I am ACTUALLY a 42 regular. And that non-joke is better than anything Chris Evans said for two hours (trust me, that’s...

Cooper Raiff's second film, Cha Cha Real Smooth is a work that flirts with greatness and finds some phenomenal moments of higher...

This review may contain spoilers. This is almost a classic exemplar of a film perfectly crafted for yours truly. Almost. It has been...

One of my great friends gave me the most wonderful gift when it came to Jurassic World: Dominion. He went first to the theater, blazed a...

This review may contain spoilers. It almost pains me to write this review. It eats at me the way it must have gnawed at Amleth,...

The very best kind of fan service. A picture that is littered with callbacks, to be sure. But rather than hold the story hostage, these...