Posts Tagged ‘The Road Warrior’
Film Review – Valhalla Rising
Valhalla Rising: Pros *Competent production values *Good, even beautiful (though not unique) photography *By no means a masterwork of technical filmmaking, but is probably passable enough to get a solid A in a film production course Cons *Historically inaccurate (takes place in 1000 AD; Crusades…
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 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 MOREEpisode 18 – The MacGuffin’s Top 25 Sequels
Spencer and John Portanova, of Adler and Zenith, share the MacGuffin Podcast’s Top 25 Sequels. The list was inspired when Spencer and John discussed Empire magazine’s list of the top 50 sequels in Episode 13. Here is the final List: 25. Gremlins 2, Kill Bill…
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