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Alexa here. Flickr user Lego Will has been making the rounds lately for his series of Lego creations titled Lego Wasteland. Will has made a wide range of vehicles inspired by the Mad Max films, which he built in anticipation of the release of Mad Max: Fury Road. What makes them so special is that they are not exact replicas of the apocalypse machines in the film, but are staggeringly detailed creations that embody the spirit of George Miller's world. Everything is awesome indeed.
The Wrap Maggie Gyllenhaal is "too old" at 37 to play onscreen love of a 55 year old actor? Gross! EmpireJuno's mom and daughter Janney & Page reuniting for the comedy Tallulah Antagony & Ecstasy shares a killer review of one of my fav Best Picture winners Grand Hotel - loved every sentence of this Nick's Flick Picks revisits Georgia (1995) as part of its Cannes retrospective. Have you ever seen it? It's a goodie. Mare Winningham, guys Nick's Flick Picks and the terribly underseen Angels & Insects - amazing costumes Awards Daily handicaps Oscar chances of Cannes players with Carol and Youth getting top marks for AMPAS likelihood The Film Stage looks at Lucretia Martel's next one, Zama, as it begins filming Salon compares the first seasons of Daredevil & The Flash. Which show wins?
Towleroad plans are afoot to make a stage musical of the Elton John biopic starring Tom Hardy called Rocket Man. Um... shouldn't they actually make the movie first before worrying about adapting it? Variety in case you hadn't heard: Roger Deakins will shoot the Bladerunner sequel (so at least it will look pretty and get one Oscar nomination) CHUD has an index of photo glimpses of Suicide Squad from Harley getting wet to the Joker at gunpoint
Mad Mania Gothamist the last scene of every Mad Men season. Matthew Weiner approached each season with its last visual in mind Slate 10 great images from Mad Men over the years - the show that always looked more like a great movie than "television" Film School Rejects where to see the Mad Men cast members next - new projects! AV Club an illustrated guide to Mad Max warlords from the Toecutter to Immortan Joe Jezebel offers up hilarious mocking of vulnerable masculinity in the face of Mad Max Fury Road
Charlize Theron menstruated all over my masculinity!
....and finally the Imperator Furiosa tribute fans of both Mad Max Fury Road and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt didn't know they wanted but now can't live with out.
The Star is TIFF about to get an "In Competition" slate at their annual festival? They've always avoided it Playbill Sutton Foster visited "The View" and talked Thoroughly Modern Millie and her new show Younger (which she is typically excellent/adorable/funny in if you haven't yet watched it. No musical numbers yet though, boo!) Wired has a longform oral history of ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) for its 40th anniversary, the fx house created originally for Star Wars that changed movies. The Daily Beast on Flula Borg, the German scene stealer from Pitch Perfect 2 Playbill this always kind of annoys me but non-nominated musicals will be performing at the Tony Awards: Gigi, Finding Neverland, and It Shoulda Been You. Better to spend the time focusing on nominees, I think. Comics Alliance Vertigo Comics was totally prepared for the world to go wild for Mad Max Fury Road. They already have prequel comics and an art book with pre-comissioned tributes by major comic artists. Towleroad Nick the Gardener takes you on a behind the scene tour of Magic Mike XXL for Ellen
Cannes Cannes RogerEbert.comloves Hou Hsiao-hsien’s longawaited epic The Assassin starring Shu Qi. Another Palme d'Or contender? This year seems highly competitive. But mixed on Youth... which is apparently highly influenced by 8½ Awards Daily Sasha says that Paolo Sorrentino's Youth about two old men in the film industry, one retired (Caine) one still working (Keitel) will be catnip to Oscar voters In Contention says Emily Blunt is "spectacular" in Sicario but Benicio del Toro is the MVP The Playlist [NSFW] has a clip from Gaspar Noé's Love
"Mad" Must Reads Because people can't stop writing about the Mad Men finale and George Miller's fourth Mad Max film. These are highly recommended!
Emily Nussbaum on the "existential brilliance" of the Mad Men finale Julianne Escobedo Shepherd examines how the meaning of Don Draper --or what we thought the show was about -- seem to have shifted over time Alan Sepinwall grapples with the two Dons or rather Don & Dick and what we want from a person/character and who they really are Mark Harris on "Artisinal Macho" and why the Mad Max Fury Road action scenes make recent action films feel so weightless Arthur Chu offers up a rundown of the long form feminism and "toxic masculinity" of the Mad Max franchise - the headline and subheader are kind of misleading but the actual point by point content / argument is terrific
1979 to Go Criterion Collection got Bette Midler to reminisce about The Rose (1979) for a dvd release!!! Take a look.
Michael C here to review my most anticipated film of the summer. Isn't it wonderful when anticipation and quality go together?
With each passing Summer the concept of the Event Movie gets a little more cheapened, a little more downgraded. Like eyes adjusting to darkness, we see weightless CG blurs collide with other weightless CG blurs and deem it good enough. That is until a film like George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road comes along to rip the curtains down and the light flood in. No, that image is not strong enough. Fury Road tears through the multiplex like a great cleansing fire, leaving the great herd of lesser, timid blockbusters scattering to escape its path.
It may seem an odd declaration to make about a franchise reboot, itself the third sequel in a series dormant since 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome. But Miller proves that any project can attain greatness with the right spirit of reckless ambition. The prevailing mentality is that an established brand is an excuse to play it safe, to scrub a rehash of the original story down to a neutered PG-13 so as not to risk alienating a single ticket buyer on Earth. George Miller goes full tilt in the opposite direction, embracing the franchise’ twisted id...
Nathaniel welcomes back Anne Marie and regular Nick Davis and new guest Kyle Stevens to discuss George Miller's critically drooled over action masterwork Mad Max Fury Road. Though is it really as good as they say? We look deep at that misdirection of a prologue, the hallucinatory visuals, and the central conceit vs the female characterizations. We even talk Oscars a little bit. There are a few spoilers so it's best to see the film before listening if you care about such thing.
Please to enjoy and continue the conversation in the comments. You can listen at the bottom of this post or download from iTunes.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 8:27AM 
