Setting into your movie theater seat for "Mad Max Fury Road" you are treated a series of trailers that remind you how many movie screens this year will be taken up with new iterations of old franchises. There's a new Jurassic Park movie coming and a new Terminator.
But Mad Max is a little different. The franchise had lain dormant since and the movies are the work of a single auteur, George Miller, who begot Mad Max and, at age 70, has reimagined parts of it for this latest installment.
Critics have gone almost universally bananas over this one, and there are protracted arguments online about whether this is the best action movie ever or the thin shell of an action movie draped over a screed about female power and healing.
This hour on the Nose, we'll continue the argument while we play with our Charlize Theron action figures.
GUESTS:
- Taneisha Duggan - Director of Audience Engagement at HartBeat Ensemble
- James Hanley - co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College
- Carolyn Paine - Actress/Comedian, Dancer, and Founder, Choreographer, & Director of CONNetic Dance
MUSIC:
- “Run The World (Girls)” by Beyonce
- Theme to “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” by The Gregory Brothers
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Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
