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FURMAN ON FILM
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Eighth Grade - 2018
Ah, middle school. We remember it well, don’t we? The time of growth that it contained for us. Puberty (yikes!). Nascent feelings of...
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Aug 11, 20212 min read
A Quiet Place - 2018
In A Quiet Place, director John Krasinski accomplishes a truly remarkable feat. It's one of his earliest outings behind the camera, yet...
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Jun 27, 20212 min read
The Brood - 1979
This review may contain spoilers. With The Brood, David Cronenberg stepped boldly into the second phase of his career. Armed with a much...
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Jun 4, 20212 min read
Ambulance - 2022
There is a sequence in Crank 2: High Voltage (which is not a Michael Bay film) where Statham hooks himself up to jumper cables and shocks...
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May 15, 20216 min read
Top Gun at 35: The Patina of 80’s Cool
On this week in May 35 years ago, a little high-wire jet flying, cockpit action stunting, oiled up volleyball playing, classically...
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May 14, 20219 min read
Where Genre Horror Meets Auteurist Delight – The Shining in Retrospect
May 23, 1980 The central conceit of TWIM, birthed from the expansive brain of my friend and its creator, Scott Sipling, explores the...
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Apr 28, 20212 min read
The Climb - 2019
The Climb contains the single best opening scene in a picture all year. It sets the stage for the production in many ways - how the film...
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Apr 28, 20211 min read
Bacurau - 2020
Bacurau belongs in a class all its own. It is the most wholly original film that I watched in 2020. A total genre mashup, Bacurau begins...
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Apr 24, 20212 min read
Vitalina Varela - 2019
Vitalina Varela was my first introduction into the incomparable lyrical world of Pedro Costa. It will not be my last. This is a story...
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
Minari - 2020
Hypothetically speaking, you could turn a corner down a short foyer hallway and enter a crowded, bustling table. The din would hit you...
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Apr 19, 20214 min read
Another Round - 2020
"Sometimes the fix isn’t really the fix." - @Scott Sipling Sometimes the fix, ironically, only points us to the source of the problem. To...
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Apr 11, 20213 min read
Burning - 2018
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...
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