Australian director George Miller successfully redefined automative action sequences with his first two Mad Max movies. The first Mad Max (1979) is an origin story, told on a small budget, and helped make a star of a young Mel Gibson. It has its moments, but is rough around the edges. The sequel, with a much…
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
This is the UK press-kit for the third movie in George Miller’s original (Mel Gibson-starring) Mad Max series. I was never much of a fan of the first movie (although it did give us a terrific French poster, which I am still trying to track down for a reasonable price). Mad Max 2 (aka The Road…
Point Blank / Payback
These two hard-boiled thrillers make for an interesting movie pairing. Point Blank was released in 1967, starring Lee Marvin, directed by John Boorman, and is held up as something of a ‘noir’ classic. It is basically a revenge story. In it, a double-crossed career criminal, shot and left for dead, works his way up through…