Tag: dystopia
Stellar line-up at 2018 Sydney SciFi Film Festival
Sydney based science fiction fans are in for a treat this month, with the fifth annual SciFi Film Festival running from the 18th to the 21st of October at the Event Cinemas complex in George St. Twenty-five films from eleven countries will screen, showcasing some of the most groundbreaking works of science fiction you’re likely…
Ben Wheatley directs J. G. Ballard’s “High-Rise”: Why movies should move
This is a very simple rule, and, as with most simple rules, we must allow for a great many exceptions. But the rule still has merit. Movies are better when they move. That’s why Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer is better than Ben Wheatley’s new movie High-Rise. Well, one reason, anyway. One very simple reason. The stories…
A Dissenting Opinion on ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’
Pacing is one of the movies’ great mysteries. It’s impossible to prescribe a guaranteed-gold formula. Films that are, on the surface, devoid of traditional action can fly by like X-wing fighters screeching around the Death Star. And flicks that jump from cut to cut while featuring sped-up cinematography and other tricks may feel as slothful…
Mad Max: Fury Road is to Mad Max as a hipster is to a hippy
After watching Mad Max: Fury Road, I have to confess to facing an internal struggle about how to approach any kind of review. There is no doubt that this is an outstanding action film within the context of a contemporary milieu of high-octane, CGI-driven, blockbuster extravaganzas. In fact, it may be one of the best…
Mad Max and the Man With No Name
In many ways, it’s entirely appropriate to describe George Miller’s original Mad Max trilogy as Australia’s equivalent to Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy. Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns are innovative reworkings of the American Western that permanently changed the landscape of the genre. But Leone’s films were also a surprising and positive result of an Italian industry largely…