Posts Tagged ‘Mad Max’
Film Review – Looper
I haven’t necessarily loved all of Rian Johnson’s movies, but I have always thought that he was an immensely talented filmmaker. His debut, with the modern noir Brick, was a treat across the board and instantly brought him widespread acclaim. Though his sophomore effort, The…
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Film Review – The FP
Somewhere in the future lays an apocalypse. With all the pretenses to such an event—gangs overrunning what’s left of society, a lack of resources, duels to the death—you would think it would look a lot worse than what it does in the Trost brothers’ feature film…
READ MOREAction Junkie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
George Miller’s third, and to date final, installment of the Mad Max series is a dueling oddity of a film, both as the closing chapter of a trilogy and as a movie standing on its own. From the film’s inception to its final frame, the…
READ MOREAction Junkie: Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior
The original title for director George Miller’s follow up to his International hit movie debut, Mad Max, was simply Mad Max 2 when it opened to Australian and Japanese theaters in 1981. Overseas in the United States it was re-titled for American audiences as The…
READ MOREPAX 2010 – In Review
This Labor Day weekend I spent my time at the three day video game festival PAX, here in downtown Seattle. Taking up most of the Convention Center, exhibitors lined the floor with massive, eye-popping displays of the latest, the coming soon, and the most cutting…
READ MOREAction Junkie: Mad Max (1979)
When George Miller’s first feature film, Mad Max was released to audiences worldwide in 1979, the genre of the Action film did not exist as a genre like it does today. This is in part because films like Mad Max helped to define and establish…
READ MOREAn Introduction
Hi, my name is Benjamin Nason. I am a new writer here on The MacGuffin website as well as a new writer over at The Backroom Comics website. I also am the writer of an independently published comic book mini-series entitled, The Serpent Whispered. I…
READ MORE1001 Movies To See Before You Die: 2nd Update
Just to get this as up to speed as possible, I thought I would quickly list everything on this list that I’ve watched so far in 2010. Most of these I had seen before, but starting with clean slate, thought it would be cool:
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