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.
Category Archives: Reviews
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.
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.
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.
Outside the Wire Review | Outside the Wire Doesn’t Hold Together
Maybe it’s strange robot behavior. Like the scene where Mackie walks 20 feet with his arms crossed. That’s weird, right? Do people walk with their arms crossed? Do robots?
Bro! This Beowulf Translation is a Good Translation
The history of the Old English epic poem known as Beowulf – the manuscript is untitled – is mysterious and complicated. It’s around a thousand years old, no one knows who wrote it, and there’s an outside chance it’s actually about a talking bear.
The Midnight Sky Review | Need Planet, Will Travel
The Midnight Sky opens on a familiar scene here in America, an old man shuffling around in his slippers, playing chess with himself, eating porridge, and drinking whiskey. Augustine Lofthouse is on lockdown.
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