Posts tagged Mad Max
SPECTRE

A New Bond film is a special thing.  You see all kinds of people excited for something that at the best of times is plain silly fun.  With the forth Daniel Craig Bond film, SPECTRE, upon us, we have been having a bit of a golden time with our old 007.  While I had issues with Skyfall, hopes for the second Sam Mendes Bond are high.  SPECTRE has been out for over a month now and by the half full cinema I saw it in, it is engaging with the masses and raking in a fair amount of coin.  The thing is, I really can't see why?  This is a Bond film that makes no sense whatsoever and that is based against the history of a franchise where sense has never been a reliable commodity.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

The credits rolled and the house lights slowly started to come up at the end of Mad Max: Fury Road.  I turned to my companions, Stevie (of many Croydon bands you've never heard of) and Ali (podcast editor for a rather well known movie magazine, whom I’d held to ransom to get us in), and we shared the same look of confused, exhilarated, bliss.  Even now, 18 hours or so after we walked back into Leicester Square, my head is still spinning at the experience of returning to George Miller’s wasteland road war.

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