The Fast And The Furious Most actors go their entire careers hoping to find themselves smack dab in an honest to God movie franchise and NOT for the purposes of artistic integrity either, but rather for those heady, steady paychecks that come your way when they decide to make yet another sequel and they need […]
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 […]
Fever Pitch You could probably count on one hand the number of times a movie has actually and unintentionally been filmed against the backdrop of a real life historical event and the filmmakers were basically forced by necessity to rewrite the film in order to incorporate said event into officially being part of the story. […]
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 […]