Bad Land: Road to Fury (Jake Paltrow, 2014)

Originally titled Young Ones for its US release, Bad Land: Road to Fury has seemingly received a name change in an attempt to capitalise on the hype surrounding the forthcoming Mad Max: Fury Road. Despite the presence of that film’s co-star Nicholas Hoult, plus desert vistas and a post-apocalyptic setting where a fleeting water supply is a key plot point, Jake Paltrow’s sci-fi Western has little in common with the Mad Max series. It actually resembles, of all things, the sprawling 1956 land epic Giant….

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My Month in Films: April 2015

18 films, 13 first time viewings

Best first time viewings
1. Fat City (John Huston, 1972, USA)
2. Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton/Richard Starzak, 2015, UK/France)
3. The Drop (Michaël R. Roskam, 2014, USA)
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon, 2015, USA)
5. Fast & Furious 7 (James Wan, 2015, USA/Japan)
6. Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg, 2015, UK/USA)

Best rewatches
Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982, USA)
Fast & Furious 5 (Justin Lin, 2011, USA)

Worst
Empire Records (Allan Moyle, 1995, USA)
Lost River (Ryan Gosling, 2014, USA)
Harlock: Space Pirate (Shinji Aramaki, 2013, Japan)
Bad Land: Road to Fury (Jake Paltrow, 2014, South Africa/USA/Ireland)