Epinions Recent Reviews for Furie

Ten Too Short Post-Punk Grooves

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:30:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - You've got to hand it to the guys in Antelope - they know their strengths. They are very good at building hypnotic rhythms that pulse like a metronome. So with their album, Reflector, they stuck to just that. They build a rhythm and then get out...

Joyously Anarchic Pop for Your Summer Trips

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:30:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - My only exposure to Animal Collective is Strawberry Jam, their seventh album. They've clearly refined their quirky brand of sunshine pop over the years. This is an album that wants to celebrate and be loved, but on its own terms. While these songs...

Half Funkadelic, Half Isley Brothers

Thu, 7 May 2009 13:16:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Somebody's been doing some crate digging. They mined up this disc and reissued it. Amnesty's Free Your Mind is an early 70s funk album that's definitely a crate-diggers dream with plenty of gems. But it's a mixed bag. The first half works...

Welcome to the Church of Wholly Ghosts

Wed, 6 May 2009 16:27:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - The seventh album from Angels of Light, We Are Him, runs a meditative, mournful, moody hour, a strange and wonderful blend of delicate, layered indie rock and unsettling dissonance. The primary vocalist formerly fronted the hard-edged Swans, while...

Alamo Race Track - Black Cat John Brown

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:50:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - I love discovering new music. You give a listen to a band that you've never heard of and, holy crap, they're awesome. Alamo Race Track caught me like that with their solid second album, Black Cat John Brown. It's a catchy, uptempo indie rock disc...

If Lynyrd Skynyrd Got High With White Zombie at a Biker Bar

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:52:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - I'll admit that I wanted to review this Alabama Thunderpussy album partially because it would get me a lot of outside hits looking for far more salacious sites on the ol' Interwebs. But, hell, Staring at the Divine is a pretty good hard rock...

Hip Hop for the Indie Rock Set

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:09:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - For Definitive Jux mainstay Aesop Rock, his most recent album, None Shall Pass is one of his best and most consistent. Producing this with longtime compatriot, Blockhead, Aesop Rock has created one of his most listenable and most intricate albums...

More NES Nostalgia from Talented Music Geeks

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:47:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - In those halcyon days of yore, I'm sure my of us frittered away our afternoons in front of a Nintendo Entertainment System, deftly alternating Bs and As and blowing gently up the skirts of our cartridges. All the while, the background music bleep-blooped...

Out for all they can take, seduce, or get away with

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:55:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Action Plus is a band caught between two worlds, the glamorous and deadly world of international espionage and the carefree beaches of Brazil. Some say she was forced into a life of crime, others say she forced her way in. Men want her, women want to be...

A Dream of Sound and Fury, Signifying Everything.

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:08:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Sonic Youth is one of those definitive alternative/indie bands, whose sound has spawned a thousand fuzzed-out college sophomores annoying their dormmates with their feedback experiments. And Daydream Nation is, arguably, the definitive Sonic Youth...

Long Time Sleaze Rockers Find Love, ELO, and Me Being Disappointed

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:36:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - On their tenth album, Spokane, WA rockers The Makers seem to be getting tired of their shtick. Their shtick is a good one, its what got me in the door. The play a dark and sleazy brand of garage rock that glances around the bar with red-rimmed eyes and a...

Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai: The Awesome and Terrible Sex Romp of Sachiko Hanai

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:06:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - A film like The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai almost defies recommendation: it’s an amateurish production full of gratuitous nudity that is at times cripplingly funny and awesome. It makes little sense, but doesn’t seem to care. Is it...

Five Songs and The Band Leaves Town

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:51:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Imagine if you walked into a garage and found a band that was equal parts Grand Funk Railroad and the MC5, with Geezer Butler on bass. You would be in rock-out heaven. And don’t tell me you wouldn’t get a-rockin, because there is no way I’m...

The Passion of the Entire Mayan Civilization

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:03:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - I’m a huge fan of horror films. Especially the gory stuff. Whenever some maniac in sporting gear hacks off a limb and the effects guy gets to show off his “spurting stump” appliance, that’s mother’s milk to me. With that said, Mel...

The Hills Have Eyes: A Worthy Remake of a Horror Classic

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:18:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Most horror fans have a soft, red spot in their hearts for the films of the 70s. Rightly so, as this was a fertile decade for the kind rampant nihilism that makes a horror film dangerous and exciting. Y’know, all that peace and love stuff didn’t...

Cobra is the Disease. Your Remote's the Cure.

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:32:22 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Boy, the 80s were a great time for action films, huh? No irony, no sissified protectors of mankind, just shooting the bad guys. That's the real justice that our troubled America needed at that time, cops like Lt. Cobretti to come racing in, shoot the...

Dead Again: Plenty of Fun Zombie Action, But Empty in the Middle

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:41:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - There's a part of me - the chewy fanboy center, of course - that really does not want to like the Dawn of the Dead remake. Th
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original was one of the best zombie flicks of all time, plus had a good bit of social...

It's Iron Monkey with a Degree in Theatre Studies

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:39:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Everybody and their mum is gonna be comparing House of Flying Daggers to
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Superficially, they're right, in the same way that you can compare The Last Starfighter to...

Hoping for a Better Day

Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:20:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Me, I like my zombie flicks. Even the garbage, so long as they give me the zombie goodness that I so crave. But I started late, and I finally got around to watching George Romero's Day of the Dead. I had dire warnings of stormy seas, but I sailed...

At Least the Eventual Videogame Will Be Entertaining.

Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:54:24 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - I've got a few new reviews cooking as part of my 2004 comeback tour, but nothing gets a fellah back in the game like a dose of apoplectic disappointment. Which means that I watched Matrix: Revolutions a few nights ago, the nail in the...

A Promising Drama Sold Out for a Twist

Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:30:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - What I get most out of Clint Eastwood's Mystic River is a sense of my dad's Boston. When I mentioned that I'd seen the film, my dad said, "How about those Savage brothers? I knew a lot of guys like that." The Savage brothers are a couple of...

For All Its Flaws, This Film Needs to be Seen

Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:23:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - Let's get this out of the way early: Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sloppy, meandering film. Michael Moore is a shameless self-promoter, a war profiteer like the ones he damns in his film. The film engages in half-hearted conspiracies, only to drop them...

Bill Murray Bears This Deadweight Above Suck Level

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:40:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - It's pretty tough to go wrong with Bill Murray. His dry sense of comic timing can salvage even the lamest movie. And in The Man Who Knew Too Little, he does just that. The film is borne above suck level almost entirely upon his back (with a little...

Romancing the Calzone: Love and Laughs Don't Quite Mix with the Mafia

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:56:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - The gangster film always has a pretty traditional view of women. They're either cheesecake or mothers, almost an afterthought while the men drive the action. John Huston's Prizzi's Honor does a little bit to change that by introducing a character...

It's Funny Because They're Black

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:38:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Furie - A few weeks ago, I was watching an episode of the newly released season 1 of In Living Color. On came a sketch where Ted Turner had decided to "colorize" old movies, including Casablanca. This meant that the familiar actors we replaced by...