This is the first Mad Max movie that feels like a movie. The first two feel like, I don’t know, gritty portraits of a world gone sideways. This one feels like a production, like Hollywood got its clammy hands on it.
Author Archives: Devin Barry
The Road Warrior Review
The Road Warrior delivers in every scene and is destined to become required educational viewing as we continue to tempt the apocalypse with our every waking action.
The Fall Guy Review
In a couple of rare moments, The Fall Guy succeeds in achieving the Point Break Effect where you’re laughing with it, and at it at the same time. Where it works as both the thing, and the parody of the thing, in the same moment.
Mad Max Review
Mad Max is a blast from the first frame. It opens on a guy watching a couple having sex through a rifle scope and moves straight into a car chase replete with the impressive stunts and screaming, speed obsessed lunatics us modern Max fans have come to know and love.
Civil War Review
Yes, the main characters take a lot of beautiful and important pictures, but at the end of the day it’s the people holding the guns who make the calls. Maybe that’s what it’s about?
The Sinner Review | The Sinner is the Bill Pullman We Need Right Now
I’m a Pullman fan myself, but I’ve ever stood around at a party quoting lines and debating his best work. Bill Paxton, yes, many times, god rest him, but not Pullman. Why is that?
Alice in Borderland Review | Escape Room Meets Lord of the Flies
Alice in Borderland doesn’t like to explain itself, but it’s only the first season. Lost ran for 6 seasons and not one time did it ever think to tell its viewers what was going on.
I Don’t Buy It, David Sedaris
We’d all like to be able to look our maker square in the face and swear we only spent the whole day smoking weed and watching The Simpsons one time. A couple of times.
Wrong Way on Runyon
What a terrible place to put a one way sign. Useless, in fact. The place for a one way sign is at the BEGINNING of the wrong way, not the end.
Sweet Home Review | A Monster of a Good Time
It you’re already a fan of Korean horror classics like The Host and Train to Busan, you will love this. If you are new to Korean horror, this is a great place to start. It’s a graveyard smash.
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