Fast Times At Ridgemont High Before The Breakfast Club, before Dazed And Confused, before American Pie and the slew of high school comedies and dramas that have come in the years since, this 1982 release marked the first of the films based around American teenage life that did so in a realistic, unsanitized manner, and […]
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Terry Gilliam’s 1998 work (based on the seminal book by Hunter S. Thompson) is in many ways the definition of a cult movie: Ignored upon its original theatrical release (and squashed by the Godzilla remake that weekend), it eventually gained through word of mouth and the home video / […]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off To some film enthusiasts, there is no activity that they enjoy more than to basically deconstruct a major (fictional) lead character in a popular or revered movie and try to cast other aspirations on exactly who or what that character really is or is meant to represent. In that regard, there […]
Few Good Men Many of the earliest Tom Cruise movies seemed to follow a very particular formula, one that was so well defined they practically became their own type of genre: Idealistic young man in a given field faces a grave challenge, but using his own intelligence, determination and grit, rises above that challenge to […]
Field Of Dreams Before Pete Rose destroyed his standing in the world of baseball for all time with his sports gambling debacle, there was the saga of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of his Chicago Black Sox throwing the 1919 World Series reportedy after a payout from some illegal gambling organizations (with the identities […]
Fifth Element You know it can be said that the science fiction movie genre is in a rut when it gets to the point that literally everything looks the same with its dark spaceships, the blackness of space and (more often than not) the dystopian view of the future that is presented which makes looking […]
Fight Club Not so much a movie that started a literal revolution in its own right but nonetheless successfully pointed out the still to this day widening cracks in the American male psyche, this 1999 release by director David Fincher scores a bullseye in targeting the “softening” of American men, something started no doubt by […]
Fighter Before the sport of boxing self-destructed under the weight of its own corruption and was replaced by the (rapidly dying in its own right) phenomenon of MMA, the fact remains that the sport had a rich history spanning over a century, and this 2010 film relays one of its last great stories, about the […]
Finding Neverland If there was ever a movie that came out in theatres at the worst possible time, it was this 2004 film, released at the height of the Michael Jackson scandal which in turn compelled audiences to stay away in droves for fear they would witness the sight of Johnny Depp molesting little boys. […]
