Fountain There are all kinds of movies out there of course, from big mindless popcorn flicks to cheesy little teen horror romps, but perhaps the toughest kind of work to pull off is that of the abstract, esoteric piece from which several different interpretations can be gleaned from different viewers. David Lynch is undoubtedly the […]
Fracture Relish. That’s something that every great actor who’s ever played a great villain has displayed in spades, particularly in those evil roles that have become iconic. Anthony Hopkins had the market cornered on it way back when he played the notorious Hannibal Lecter and picked himself up an Oscar doing so. And now here […]
Frailty Horror movies in the 21st century have become a monstrosity in and of themselves in terms of quality. Found footage atrocities that pathetically ape Blair Witch, CGI shitfests, and moronic remakes, ripoffs, and badly done homages to the horror masterpieces of the past, even as these new age filmmakers readily forget that what made […]
Frankenhooker There is probably no other filmmaking career as strange and weird just as it was brief like Frank Henenlotter’s. Over a career that only lasted a few years and a handful of films (before he dived into making documentaries about exploitation cinema), nobody has ever likely made more of an impression with such a […]
Freddy vs Jason And so finally New Line Cinema succeeded in coming out with this historic cinematic showdown in 2003. It was about time, really. New Line had purchased the rights to the Jason character (for the specific purpose of making THIS movie) 10 years earlier before spending all of that time constantly developing a […]
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare For nearly seven years, Freddy Krueger had cut a bloody swath across the cinematic landscape as he unleashed unspeakable carnage upon the spoiled American 80s teen archetype, and audiences around the world had wound up loving him for it all the more, made even more ironic by the fact that […]
Freejack The one thing I’ve always noticed about great science fiction (and usually action) movies that were adapted from popular literary works is that the original source novels were always so awfully dry, a minute description of the future technology and technical jargon in the fictional world being described but very little in terms of […]
French Connection The police procedural drama had long since been a staple of both TV and movies as usually seen in shows like Dragnet where the cops would wearily interrogate suspects until finally figuring everything out that was needed to wrap up the case. The concept of the action movie (as we know it today) […]
French Connection 2 The very tricky business of sequels is one that at times can make or break the most beloved franchises within the film industry. Sometimes a sequel can be SO bad that it can literally ruin the genre from whence the original film came (like with Smokey And The Bandit 2 and the […]
Frequency Defttly combining elements of sentimental family drama, sci-fi time travel fantasy, and taut serial killer thriller, director Gregory Hoblit comes up with his best effort to date thanks to the brilliant story and concept by writer Toby Emmerich. As the cop who manages to connect to his long-dead father 30 years earlier via HAM […]