NOC Review: ‘Furiosa’ is a Fiercely Fun Fever Dream

May 17, 2024July 23, 2024 Mike Manalo

“What a lovely day!” With those words audiences in 2015 were reintroduced to the world of George Miller’s Mad Max in Mad Max: Fury Road. In that masterpiece, they came to meet a new beloved franchise hero: Imperator Furiosa. It’s almost nine years to the date that Mad Max: Fury Road drove into theaters, and we find ourselves back in The Wasteland, albeit 20-30 years prior to the events of the previous epic, to learn about the origins of Furiosa, and how she became to be the fiercest warrior in the Post-Apocalypse. But was this a story we needed? After witnessing Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, I can safely say, yes it was, and I’m sure glad this was made!

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Watch the Official Trailer for ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’

November 30, 2023December 1, 2023 Sophia Soto

Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which serves as the highly-anticipated return to the dystopian world that he created over 30 years ago with the Mad Max movies. Today, Warner Bros. Pictures has excited fans by dropping the official trailer!

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The Imperator and The Widow

February 16, 2016March 7, 2016 Eric S.B.

Last year was the year of the most iconic feminist leading lady in action/sci-fi, arguably the most in cinematic history: the one and only Imperator Furiosa played be Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. Thanks to a fellow NOC, I have finally finished the way too short first season of Into The Badlands. Following Furiosa and a long history of leading women in Hong Kong action cinema with better acting chops and doing more roundhouse damage than their male co-stars (Michelle Yeoh will be back soon as Yu Shu Lien people!), Into the Badlands also introduced us to strong heroines whose stories I hope to better understand in more detail in a second season. More than Wu’s Sunny, more than the avatars, even more than my man Cung Le, it was Emily Beecham’s show-stopping performance as The Widow that locked me in.

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My Top 15 Films of 2015

January 13, 2016January 15, 2016 Dennis R. Upkins

Much like 2014, I did not expect 2015 to offer a str0ng selection of cinematic gems, but offer it did.

Quite an impressive feat considering that the general law for media I consume is that it must pass My Media Litmus Test.

Without further adieu, the winners are:

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NOC Reviews Mad Max: Fury Road

May 15, 2015November 27, 2019 Ren Hsieh

As humankind ventures deeper into a digital being, Mad Max: Fury Road reminds us that we still live in an analog world. Life after the apocalypse will have no synthesized dings or chimes for audio cues, we will have only the roar of revving engines, bursting flamethrowers, war drums, and a gas-powered electric guitar to warn us that danger is in the distance.

It took 30 years for George Miller to return to the wasteland, but the timing couldn’t have been any better. Miller has taken the uncompromising arthouse nature of the original Mad Max movies, and combined it with 30 years of experience and the technology to create the fully realized, seemingly impossible world of Fury Road.

The result is an action movie that will be the benchmark to which every one to follow will be judged.

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