Tag Archives: Mad Max

Whether it’s through nuclear holocausts, global war, disease, meteor strikes, natural disasters or other forms of devastation capable of wiping out civilisation as we know it, post-apocalyptic worlds have served as backdrops in literature and cinema for quite some time. ...

In an age of listicles, creating best of/worst of lists seems like, at best, a harmless but empty gesture and, at worst, an exercise in futility. Yet, there is something about a year-end’s list that seems necessary. We want to honor ...

When thinking about the history of 80s Italian genre cinema, no three films seem as influential and important to its formation than do 1979’s Mad Max and The Warriors and 1981’s Escape from New York. Each film — albeit through ...

Mad Max: Fury Road is a film that knows its audience, which is not surprising given that George Miller returned to direct this new chapter of the franchise that began his career. He proves that even after directing two installments of Happy Feet, ...

As we gear up for the release of Fury Road this week, Scream Factory has given us one more reason to keep Mad Max on our minds…a nice new Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray of the original 1979 film, Mad Max. The ...

Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

When I sat down to do our normal style review, I realized that it wasn’t really fair for this particular release. First of all, the release was originally intended to play as one half of a double-feature, backed with the ...

Due to it’s allegorical nature and the patterns of audiences, it’s fun to see how the Science Fiction genre has adapted over the years to become indicative of every decade it inhabits. While ‘50s and ‘60s science fiction held stories ...