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FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA: Offical Trailer #2 - She Will Return With a Vengeance.
Warner Bros. have just released the next official trailer for George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a...
FURIOSA: Giving the Heroine a Prequel Plays a Dangerous Game
This essay, originally titled "The Days I Don't Remember," appeared as backmatter for high-tier Kickstarter backers of my book, The Cinema of Survival: Mad Max Fury Road. I've edited and updated it now that the Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga...
Review: THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING, Djinn and Tonic
It’s been almost a decade since George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Witches of Eastwick), a then 70-year-old, Australian filmmaker some dismissed as either washed or well past his prime, proved doubters spectacularly wrong, writing and...
Fantaspoa 2016 Interview: Brian Trenchard-Smith On TURKEY SHOOT And DEAD END DRIVE-IN
Fantaspoa’s tradition of paying homage to living legends of genre cinema, such as Lloyd Kaufman, Richard Stanley and Fabio Frizzi, continues in 2016 with a mini retrospective dedicated to fearless filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith, key figure of the so-called Ozploitation subgenre....
THE REVENANT And MAD MAX Win Big At BAFTAs
The Revenant continued its run of award-winning form last night, bagging five awards at the BAFTAs in London. In addition to being named Best Film, director Alejandro Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio were also honoured. The film, which also collected...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Tops Online Critics Awards
George Miller's action epic continues to pick up steam in awards season as it was named Best Film of 2015 today by the Online Film Critics Society, of which a number of ScreenAnarchy's contributors are members. Miller also nabbed the...
Screen Anarchy's Top 10 Movies Of The First Half Of 2015
As mentioned before, the year 2015 is moving on with breakneck speed, it seems. Currently we're already at the halfway point, and can look back at what's been a pretty surprising cinematic six months. So we asked ourselves what we...
Destroy All Monsters: The Problem With The TOMORROWLAND Thesis
I enjoyed Tomorrowland. There was a joy about the way Brad Bird shot the film that reminded me of early Spielberg, and if the whole thing ends up turning on the audience's willingness to believe that George Clooney has harboured...
Hooray For Hollywood! Meet The Bullet-Points Memo
Welcome to a new semi-regular subsection that we like to call the "Bullet-Points Memo." The idea behind BPM is to highlight multiple contemporaneous entertainment business stories that seem interesting to us (and, hopefully, you). We will be pulling stories, ideas...
Destroy All Monsters: All We Have Are Our Bodies On FURY ROAD
In Mad Max: Fury Road, we get the great existentialist Western of our time. Save one character murmuring prayers in one shot to anyone who will listen, God is not in evidence. The movie is entirely bound up in human...
The Many Faces Of Charlize Theron
Mad Max: Fury Road is putting the pedal to the metal in cinemas worldwide, and two things have become apparent. One: reviews so far are almost ridiculously positive. Two: everyone agrees Charlize Theron is awesome. Thing number two shouldn't come...
Cannes 2015 News: George Miller on MAD MAX - "I'd See It In 3D"
During the press conference for (the sublime) Mad Max here at Cannes 2015, ScreenAnarchy asked George Miller directly about his preference for which version of the film he preferred - stereoscopic, or 2D.Due to comments before the film's release...
The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worlds of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
What will the future look like? In Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller and his fabulous team conjure up strikingly distinct landscapes for what is, in essence, a chase movie. Yet it's a chase movie with great empathy for...
Review: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, A Tour De Force Masterpiece
How's this for hyperbole: George Miller is the Australian Spielberg. You've got a director with a wide diversity of films (from The Road Warrior to Babe to Happy Feet), all injected with an almost preternaturally gifted ability to have...
MAD MAX: Will You Survive The New Trailer?
Mad Max. Fury Road. Tom Hardy. Charlize Theron. New trailer. Holy shit....
SXSW 2015: George Miller Introduces THE ROAD WARRIOR And Previews MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Seeing George Miller walk out on stage to introduce The Road Warrior made all my pains go away. A medical doctor turned filmmaker, Miller may not have magical healing powers, but his movies have the capacity to make audiences forget...
New MAD MAX Trailer Hurts Real Good
Is there a ton of new footage in the new Japanese trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road? Honestly, not so much. But what there is every bit as gonzo as what we saw in the first trailer and it provides...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Unleashes A Furious New Trailer
We all have good reason to be wary about Mad Max: Fury Road -- the distance from the original trilogy, the production delays, the rumors -- but take a look at the new trailer anyway, just because it's likely to...
Our First Look At Hardy And Theron In MAD MAX:FURY ROAD
EW got the big scoop today with fresh images from George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron adorn the cover of their upcoming The Apoclaypse Issue. Then inside there are more images of the two plus...
The Kids Talk Film: MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR
When the opportunity presented itself to see George Miller's car-pocalypse cult spectacular The Road Warrior on the big screen in Toronto a dodging of the R rating was necessary for Willem (age 11), but his younger sister Miranda (age 9) was...
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