Silver Screen Guide | Movie Review Podcast

This is the end so catch up on our previous THREE Mad Max Movie Reviews! 30 years, yes that's right listeners, three decades after Mad Max: Beyond Thurderdome blasted into cinemas, George Miller resurrected Max Rockatansky to take one more ride, this time on the Fury Road. Mel Gibson passed the role of Max onto a much younger Tom Hardy--this film, once again, features a new cast of characters but in the same outrageous Australian Outback. Although this is the fourth (and many consider the best) installment, it was a time for firsts: this is the first entry in the series to receive any Oscar nominations. Miller, at this point, had already won a few Oscars for his childrens films, but this film blew out the 2016 Academy Awards. Fury Road was nominated for 10 Oscars--including Best Picture and the film would go on to take home 6 Oscars (the most of the night!). Fun fact, Hugh Keays-Byrne who played Toe-Cutter in the first Mad Max, has a new part as the ghastly villian Immortan Joe. Is the fourth time the charm