A Quiet Place is one of those films that reminds you that there are still many good horror films to be made. Place it squarely in the category of Get Out as an original creative endeavor: one that borrows from the past and leads you down expected roads but adorns […]
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It has been a long time coming. George Miller‘s follow-up to his classic Mad Max movies hit theaters last night, finally, after years of development. Does Mad Max: Fury Road stand up to expectations? I saw it on opening night in 3D (and rewatched it in 2D recently), and what […]
Director George Miller returns to the hellish post-apocalyptic landscape of the classic Mad Max series with this very long awaited, amazingly bold, exhilarating action-adventure that pumps adrenaline like a fuel injected suicide machine. Mad Max: Fury Road sees Tom Hardy (Locke) taking over the lead role of ex-cop turned drifter […]
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the third part of the franchise and viewed by many as the worst. It is about an ex-cop Max (Mel Gibson) who wanders through derelict lands of Australia. Upon being robbed by Jedediah (Bruce Spence), he sets out for the nearest cluster of civilisation with […]
In this 70s film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend, Charlton Heston plays U.S. Army Col. Robert Neville M.D., a Los Angeles based survivor of global biological warfare that wipes out most living things. Neville resides in a special fortified compound which he must defend from “The […]
The Australian dystopian/post-apocalyptic action/adventure classics that introduced the world to that furious force of nature Mel Gibson will be coming to Blu Ray June 4th from Warner Home Video in a special single release. If you’re a film geek you should surely already know who Mad Max is, if not, […]
A genre very dear to my cineast heart is post-apocalyptic cinema. Among dystopic art in general, this genre lives off its lawlessness, the stylistic palette, and the cinematic potential of the settings it offers. Much like the western, post-apocalyptic cinema is a genre that has its own laws, its own […]
What if you made a post-apocalyptic movie with some really interesting ideas, convincing character actors and the potential to create your own story ecosystem? Deadland is that movie. I stumbled across it basically by accident, and since I am a sucker for post-apocalyptic cinema, I needed to watch it. Turns […]