******SCREAMER-SPOILERS!****** Based on one of a cycle of stories from the late Harlan Ellison, “A Boy and His Dog” was adapted into a low-budget indie film in 1975 by longtime Western-genre actor/director L.Q. Jones (“The Wild Bunch”), who was a surprisingly passionate advocate for adapting and directing this wildly offbeat dystopia story into a movie. “A…
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“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (2024) roars and rampages, and gets bloody satisfaction…
*****HIGH-OCTANE SPOILERS!***** The “Mad Max” films have long been an uneven mix, with George Miller’s 1979 original being a late-but-imaginative entry into 1970s high-octane exploitation films (his nihilistic answer to “Two Lane Blacktop” or “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry”). Beginning with 1981’s “Mad Max 2” aka “The Road Warrior” (as we knew it in the States),…