Tag: George Miller

Film review: ‘3,000 YEARS OF LONGING’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Despite being directed by the revered George Miller, containing some inspired and quite startling moments and starring two of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the oddball romantic fantasy and storytelling tribute, 3,000 Years Of Longing doesn’t entirely work.  The title sounds like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel but George Miller and Augusta Gore wrote the film’s

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Film review: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, from ‘Built For Speed’

With the initial Mad Max film trilogy, director George Miller established an idiosyncratic but distinctly Australian franchise that earned first a cult then a mainstream following and provided a springboard for star Mel Gibson’s ascent into the Hollywood stratosphere.  After a mere 30 years Miller has delivered the fourth instalment Mad Max: Fury Road.  The film has thus far had

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