FURMAN ON FILM

For me, this viewing completed a sort of triumvirate. It concluded a three day descent into the horrors at the heart of humankind's...

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...

To my memory, there has never been a less fitting film poster for a work of art. This film is nothing like the hazy, psychedelic fever...

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...