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FURMAN ON FILM
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Something in the Dirt - 2022
The secret sauce in Something in the Dirt is NOT in the excavation of heady sci-fi concepts, cultic conspiracy theorizing, and...
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Aug 28, 20222 min read
The Thing - 1982
Happy to report what to many is probably painfully obvious - on rewatch four decades later, The Thing is STILL a stone cold masterpiece....
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Jun 15, 20224 min read
Jurassic World Dominion - 2022
One of my great friends gave me the most wonderful gift when it came to Jurassic World: Dominion. He went first to the theater, blazed a...
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Nov 4, 20215 min read
Dune - 2021
This review may contain spoilers. One may look at this overall star rating and be tempted to think I’m trashing this film. If he (or she)...
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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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Dec 24, 20204 min read
The Vast of Night - 2019
My best friend hated The Vast of Night. After we had both finished viewing it, a verbal sparring match ensued. I pressed him on what he...
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Dec 18, 20204 min read
Possessor - 2020
This review may contain spoilers. Not surprisingly, it seems most of the dialogue centered around Possessor at the time of its release...
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Dec 2, 20202 min read
EX Machina - 2014
Plenty of adjectives could be used to describe Ex Machina – eerie, haunting, claustrophic, mind-bending. All are apt, and all convey a...
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Dec 2, 20203 min read
Mad Max: Fury Road - 2015
If I had to construct a thesis for this bad boy, it would read as follows: they just don’t make movies like this anymore. You know the...
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Nov 27, 20203 min read
Mad Max - 1979
It was all there in the beginning. I didn't realize it at first. On first viewing, I took Mad Max for what I thought it was, one hell of...
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Oct 25, 20204 min read
Palm Springs - 2020
This review may contain spoilers. Palm Springs does a truly brilliant thing. It stands on the shoulders of the giant that went before it...
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Sep 23, 20204 min read
Aliens - 1986
Aliens is about as impressive a coming out party as you will ever find for a director. But it is decidedly that. For after the modest...
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Sep 21, 20204 min read
Alien - 1979
Are there any original takes for forty plus year old movies? It's kind of hard to imagine, especially for one as airtight as this one....
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Aug 22, 20203 min read
The Terminator - 1984
Though a part of the same cinematic universe, there are worlds of difference between The Terminator and T2. While the latter is massive...
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Feb 10, 20202 min read
Ad Astra - 2019
Let's make no bones about it. I WANTED to make this film my number 1. I really waaanted to so bad. Many years I would have. But, top to...
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