FURMAN ON FILM

No other film in 2018 captured the critical importance and concrete ability of the elements of mood and tone to set the trajectory for a...

All The Right Moves belongs to a particular era of sports films. Watching it today, with these 2021 eyes, made two things abundantly...

I was overwhelmed by two competing, if complementary, thoughts at the conclusion of Nomadland. The first was in regards to its director,...

Let me start this write-up with a bold, unsubstantiated claim: THIS film is as groundbreaking in the genre as Nolan’s Dark Knight was...

At this point, I cannot deny this genius production of Quentin Tarantino any longer. I thought there was nary a chance he could craft a...

MOVIES ARE DEAD!!! This echoes (sorta) the refrain of an oft sickly 19th century German philosopher regarding the nature of divinity. But...

This review may contain spoilers. There are some people that will see this merely as a "message movie." A liberal grenade lobbed over the...

This review may contain spoilers. I will confess, though it's probably an unpopular view, that I struggled with the first thirty minutes...

There is a trend inside Steve McQueen's Small Axe series which is almost indiscernible at first but comes more to the fore as the...

It's an awful bit of film criticism, in my opinion, to talk about the relative merits of one work of art in lieu of another. To say, in...

When I started training for triathlons about five years ago, I hardly knew heads from tails. I just sought to get the right equipment,...

This review spoils a few plot points. It is not often that we get a film which simultaneously functions both as a vehicle for an...