People will eventually come around to love Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – It is destined to become a cult classic – but they will have missed seeing it on the big screen, where it is best appreciated. Furiosa Marks George Miller’s return to his iconic gas-guzzling, post-apocalyptic wasteland nine years after his 2015 masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. This is a prequel filling in the backstory of Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa (here, played by Anya Taylor-Joy), which shows how a young girl from the prosperous green place is kidnapped by gangster bikers and ends up becoming Immortan Joe’s right-…
Author: Ben Sherlock
The Mad Max The franchise’s shockingly consistent Rotten Tomatoes scores, with the same level of critical acclaim over 45 years, prove that Furiosa Deserved to be a much bigger hit. Mad Max is one of the only great movie franchises that has been spurred by the unique vision of the same filmmaker through every single incarnation. George Miller started the Mad Max series with his low-budget independent directorial debut in 1979. Over almost half a century, as the franchise grew from gritty Australian thrillers to big-budget Hollywood blockbusters, Miller guided. Mad Max Every step of the way. What’s even more…
There are many popular fan theories in the Star Wars universe, some much more extraordinary than others. one Star Wars A theory that still holds some weight among the fandom is whether the infamous Jar Jar Binks could be a Sith Lord who is masquerading as a complete and utter buffoon. Although it may seem far-fetched at first glance, there is amusing evidence that suggests it can hold water. The Darth Jar Jar theory has had something of a resurgence after Ahmed Best, who provided the voice and motion capture for Jar Jar in the prequel trilogy, returned to Star…
A throwaway line that Doc Brown says to Marty McFly when he shows him the DeLorean in the first one Back to the future Movie slyly foreshadowed the Almanac storyline for the sequel. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s Back to the future Script is a masterclass in plant-and-payoff; Almost everything in this movie is a setup that builds to a payoff later. Lorraine tells her kids how she fell in love with George ends up being the key to Marty’s plan to ensure they get together when he goes back in time to 1955 and starts being erased from existence.…
of catch-22 to Good morning, VietnamThere are many great movies that balance compelling character drama with incisive dark humor as effectively as this MASH. Most war movies, like Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse nowAnd The Deer HunterOffer bleak, harrowing accounts of the horrors of warfare and the devastating psychological toll it takes. But there are many filmmakers who have used the inherent absurdity of warfare to satirize geopolitics and human nature, like Stanley Kubrick with his Cold War farce. Dr. Strangelove Or Ivan Reitman with his light buddy comedy Strips. Robert Altman’s transgressive comedy blockbuster MASH and the subsequent hit television…
of catch-22 to Good morning, VietnamThere are many great movies that balance compelling character drama with incisive dark humor as effectively as this MASH. Most war movies, like Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse nowAnd The Deer HunterOffer bleak, harrowing accounts of the horrors of warfare and the devastating psychological toll it takes. But there are many filmmakers who have used the inherent absurdity of warfare to satirize geopolitics and human nature, like Stanley Kubrick with his Cold War farce. Dr. Strangelove Or Ivan Reitman with his light buddy comedy Strips. Robert Altman’s transgressive comedy blockbuster MASH and the subsequent hit television…
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Apartment 7A. Apartment 7a is the official prequel to Rosemary’s babyBut a different horror franchise spin-off – The first man – told a much more effective and atmospheric Antichrist pregnancy storyline earlier this year. Produced by John Krasinski of A quiet place honor, Apartment 7a Tells the untold backstory of Terry GionoffrioA minor character of Rosemary’s baby. in Rosemary’s babyTerry is a tenant of Minnie and Roman Castevet who dies mysteriously. Apartment 7a Digs into exactly what happened to Terry and reveals how and why she died. After the made-for-TV 1976 sequel Look what happened to…
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Apartment 7A. Apartment 7 a is the official prequel to Rosemary’s babyBut a different horror franchise spin-off – The first omen – told a much more effective and atmospheric Antichrist pregnancy storyline earlier this year. Produced by John Krasinski of A quiet place honor, Apartment 7a Tells the untold backstory of Terry GionoffrioA minor character of Rosemary’s baby. in Rosemary’s babyTerry is a tenant of Minnie and Roman Castevet who dies mysteriously. Apartment 7a Digs into exactly what happened to Terry and reveals how and why she died. After the made-for-TV 1976 sequel Look what happened…
From Anthony Hopkins in The silence of the lambs To Beatrice straight in NetworkSome shockingly short Oscar-Winning performances have proven that there are no small parts. It’s already impressive enough for an actor to deliver an Academy Award-worthy performance when they have two-and-a-half hours to chew the scenery in the spotlight. Cillian Murphy’s Oscar-winning turn Oppenheimer is incredible, but he has three full hours full of long IMAX close-ups to wow audiences with his work. It takes a special kind of actor to earn an Oscar with less than 20 minutes of screen time. Usually, the Best Supporting Actress and…
Previous horror movies have used knives and chains to kill their characters, but Netflix’s new body-swapping thriller It’s what’s inside Manages to turn peanut butter into a deadly weapon. It’s what’s insides Bodies bodies bodies-The plot revolves around a group of friends attending a pre-wedding party, where an old acquaintance they haven’t seen for years turns up with a mysterious review. When he reveals that the suitcase holds a dangerous new body-swapping technology, a seemingly harmless party game quickly turns ugly. All the friends’ betrayal and home truths begin to spill out, and the bodies begin to pile up. Written…