The superhero film genre has grown to be one of the largest tentpoles in cinema for close to a decade thanks to Marvel and DC constantly pushing the envelope and audience’s expectations. In fact, it’s so rare for a large production to face cancellation due to how much money is on the table. That’s why […]
Mad Max: Fury Road – Fear of a Feminist Action Movie
Mad Max: Fury Road is many things. It’s an action movie masterpiece with the look and feel of a European comic book (think Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius). It’s a post-apocalyptic descendent of Buster Keaton’s The General and the cartoons of Chuck Jones, with careful attention to spatial relationships, cause and effect, and the art of […]
[Review] Mad Max: Fury Road
Thirty years have passed since director George Miller’s last visit to the dystopian future of his most famous creation, Mad Max. Since then, he’s preoccupied himself with such family fare as two Happy Feet movies and a Babe sequel, having struggled to get this third Max sequel off the ground since 1998. Fury Road suggests […]