Station Zero

I just discovered that some of the posts from my old blog are still, somehow, googleable. So I’m re-posting them here - apologies if you’ve read them before. First up: Mad Max: Fury Road. I wasn’t particularly interested when I first heard about   Mad Max - Fury Road . I’ve reached that age where every other movie out of Hollywood is a remake or a reboot of something that I remember from my formative years, and almost all of them seem inferior to the originals. But it turns out that   Fury Road   is the real deal: I don’t remember enjoying a sci-fi/action movie this much since   Aliens . The plot would fit comfortably on a post-it note. I’ve seen a few people on Twitter saying this as if it’s a bad thing. It’s not. Most films have far more plot than they know what to do with.  Fury Road  has exactly as much as it needs. Which isn’t very much at all, because it’s a demented punk hymn to speed and violence. Basically, post-apocalyptic warlord Immortan Joe (Hu...