End Credits #343 - May 29, 2024 (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)

This week on End Credits, we're speaking French to power! Well, not really. This episode is definitely France adjacent though, because there's a big annual film festival that just wrapped up there, and they premiered a great many movies over the last few weeks. One of them is the movie we're reviewing today, a prequel to a 10-year-old movie and a sequel to a 45-year-old one.

This Wednesday, May 29, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:

Yes We Cannes. Every year, the centre of the film world moves to the south of France. The Festival de Cannes is not like all the other film festivals, it's much more professional and serious and uptown than the ones with a public component, but that doesn't mean we can't still have some fun. To kick off this week's show, we're going to talk about the most buzzed about movies this year, including that one that was made by a madman. No, the other one.

REVIEW: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. In 2015, George Miller raised his post-apocalyptic saga Mad Max out of development hell with Fury Road, a propulsive, action-packed two-hour chase movie that introduced the great new heroine Furiosa. In this prequel to the sequel we see a young Furiosa, now played by Anya Taylor-Joy, as she's taken from her home and made a ward of various tyrants and gangsters as she becomes the most fearsome warrior in the wasteland. Big shoes to fill for Joy, but can Miller pull off another surprise hit of epic proportions?

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.