Mad Max: Fury Road — Real Action Reaction
Cataclysmically, unrelentingly action packed, like a room full of toddlers hopped up on PCP and strapped to power saws, told that only the last of them standing gets the graham cracker
Category Archives: Active Observation
Mad Max: Fury Road Is Your Brain On Drugs
Your brain is on drugs, it’s on fire, and George Miller just drove a truck through it. Yay!
Let’s Give Rolling Thunder A Hand
The cult revenge flick is in fact a dark, brooding drama.
Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome: Invention of The Post-Apocalyptic
Nobody does post-apocalyptic like George Miller. We take a took at the trilogy of 30 years past in preparation for Fury Road.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the trashiest of trashy ’80s movie producers, in all their glory.
Roar, or: Let’s Get Mauled By Jungle Cats!
Lions and, yes, tigers in Africa terrorize an innocent family whose only crime was to keep 150 pet jungle cats in their house.
Avengers: Age of Ultron, In Which No Shawarma Is Eaten
The sequel to The Avengers is otherwise much like its predecessor: kinda witty and fun, kinda boring and explodey.
Welcome To Me: Half Funny, Half Insufferable
Are all talk show hosts mentally unstable narcissists? This one is.
World of Tomorrow, It’s Such A Beautiful Day, And All Things Don Hertzfeldt
A world of large spoons, brain cubes, nefarious balloons, and a doomed future in the bleak and abstract outernet. Fun!
Penguins, Daredevils, Batmen, & Other Flailing Franchises
Audiences are strange. You can chase them, and try to manipulate them. Sometimes that works and sometimes it don’t.
Ex Machina Humina Humina
A science fiction threesome between a sexy robot, a mad genius, and a youthful innocent.
Colossus: The Forbin Project, In Which A Supercomputer Gets Wise
In which humans are given yet another lesson on why allowing superintelligent computers to take over the world is a bad idea. Will we never learn?
Safe: Todd Haynes’s Allergic Reaction To The 20th Century
A movie that makes you vaguely uncomfortable with absolutely everything.
Furious 7 Gets Completely Untethered
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.