Tag: George Miller

• Vintage Cable Box: “The Road Warrior, 1982”

  “You wanna get outta here? You talk to me.” The Road Warrior, 1982 (Mel Gibson), Warner Bros. This is the movie that re-invented the wheel. Australia’s post-apocalyptic wasteland depleted of natural resources serves as the perfect backdrop for director George Miller’s dissection of survival and intelligence. The Road Warrior (aka Mad Mad 2) continues the…

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  January 31, 2018

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  1979, 1982, action, Australia, car chase, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max Fury Road, Mel Gibson, The Road Warrior

• Vintage Cable Box: Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983

  “You wanna see something REALLY scary?” Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 (Dan Aykroyd), Warner Bros. I popped in the old Warner Brothers clamshell VHS tape of this, because I wanted to watch the movie as I remembered it when I saw it on cable television in 1984.  Of course I had to play it on…

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  August 31, 2016

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  1983, action, Bill Quinn, Billy Mumy, clamshell, Dan Aykroyd, Dick Miller, George Miller, horror, Jerry Goldsmith, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin McCarthy, Rod Serling, Scatman Crothers, science fiction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, VHS, Vic Morrow, Vintage Cable Box, Warner Brothers, William Schallert, William Shatner

• New Episode! “T.n.T. (Terror ‘n Tinseltown)”

  88th Academy Awards with Chris Rock, Angela Bassett, Louis C.K., and Leonardo DiCaprio produced by David Hill and Reginald Hudlin. Directed by Glenn Weiss. “Act Naturally” (Johnny Russell/Voni Morrison) by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. “Til It Happens to You” (Lady Gaga/Diane Warren) by Lady Gaga. “Mad Max: Fury Road” (a 2015 film directed by…

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  April 18, 2016

  Podcast

  88th Academy Awards, Action International Pictures, Andrew La Ganke, Batman, Batman Begins, Bridge of Spies, Cast Away, Chris, Christopher Nolan, comparison, Daughters of Darkness, David A. Prior, David Lawler, Diane Warren, digital, Filmmaking, films, Gary Busey, Gena Rowlands, George Miller, Harry Kumel, High Definition, Hollywood, Joe Versus The Volcano, John Cassavettes, John Patrick Shanley, Kevin Lindenmuth, Lady Gaga, Louis C.K., Mad Max, Peter Falk, Podcast, Point Break, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, race baiting, racism, rape, Reginald Hudlin, Samuel L. Jackson, Sony email scandal, Steven Spielberg, The Road Warrior, Tom Hanks