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.
Category Archives: Active Observation
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.
The Car: Best Jaws Rip-Off Ever
Forget about grizzlies, piranha, squids, orcas, and giant ants. Nothing is more terrifying than Satan’s Lincoln Continental.
Experiencing Star Trek – The Motion Picture The Way It Was Meant To Be Seen: On TV With Commercials
Turns out the then-most expensive motion picture in history was meant for the small screen.
White God Increases Your Risk of Heartworm
Mongrel monster movie White God (Fehér isten) wants to have it’s kibble and eat it too.