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: Movie Review
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?
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?
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.
Prospect Review | Prospect is the Best Episode of The Mandalorian
Every second Pedro Pascal is on screen in Prospect, The Mandalorian gets worse. He is magnetic. Humble. Wily. To short his electricity behind an expressionless metal mask is an affront.
My Octopus Teacher Review | My Octopus Teacher is Gripping
My Octopus Teacher is zoomed all the way in. It’s the study of one tiny patch of kelp forest. It’s like an interview with one of the Blue Planet camera people. What was it like spending all that time with these animals? What did it feel like the first time a dolphin swam up and booped your nose? Mind-blowing? I bet.
Netflix’s Project Power is Not About a Scam Charity
It’s about a pill that grants the swallower five minutes of super powers, only no one knows what power they’re going to get until they try it. It’s like Airheads White Mystery.
Palm Springs: What the Groundhog Day Format Teaches Us About Ourselves
They get to know things about the process of dying that none of the rest of us will ever know. Maybe not what happens after, but everything about the moments leading up to it and those are true mysteries of the universe.
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