Tag: Mad Max: Fury Road

• Mad Max on the Feminism Road

  Really enjoyed this post from Freddie de Boer about his frustration with the common misinterpretation of Mad Max: Fury Road as “Furiosa replaces Max in a Mad Max movie”—a take that’s entirely false: It’s important to understand that Furiosa doesn’t replace Max because the entire movie demonstrates the failure of dictatorship and the superiority of…

  Jul 12, 2021

  # democracy, femininity, feminism, film, Fredrik deBoer, Mad Max: Fury Road, masculinity, movies

• Favorite Films of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite books, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. My initial list for this endeavor had 77 movies. After I barely managed to winnow it down to 50, I just couldn’t figure out how I’d get to that arbitrary yet appealing round number of 10. But once I realized most of the…

  Dec 10, 2019

  # Arrival, best of, film, Hell Or High Water, Lincoln, lists, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minding the Gap, movies, Spider-Man, Spotlight, The LEGO Movie, The Social Network, This Is Martin Bonner

• Browse eternal, shiny and not Chrome

  Last month I got fed up with the constant whirring of my MacBook Pro’s fan, and its consistent slowness generally, so I tried a few things to try to improve it. One was quitting iTunes when I wasn’t using it, and the other was quitting Chrome and using Firefox instead. I don’t know if only…

  Jun 18, 2018

  # Apple, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Google Chrome, Mad Max: Fury Road, technology

• Favorite Films, Books & Albums of 2015

  Resurrecting my 2013 choice to include all my best-ofs into one omnilist, here are 15 films, books, and albums I loved from 2015. Film 1. BrooklynThere’s a scene about five minutes into Brooklyn that setup the whole film for me. Eilis (Saoirse Ronan), soon bound for a new life in 1950s America, watches as her…

  Jan 26, 2016

  # best of, books, Brooklyn, film, Glen Hansard, H is for Hawk, Kate Beaton, lists, Lord Huron, Mad Max: Fury Road, movies, music, review, Sandra McCracken, Slow West, Spotlight, Sufjan Stevens, The Hunt for Vulcan, Typewriter Revolution