my two cents

My Two Cents: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)

It’s been a while since I’ve seen any of the previous Mad Max films leading up to Mad Max: Fury Road. However, that didn’t stop me from catching the glory of director George Miller‘s return to the fray aside from this being my big screen introduction to the character, and needless to say, it’s nothing short of the wonderous, gruesome, brutally fantastic cinematic treat that any number of reviews will tell you this month. The film immediately reinvites you into the rebooted madness with a heavily-bearded Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) in the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland as he’s captured by the War Boys, a cult of bald albinos led by Immorten Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). While in captivity, Rockatansky soon ends up as a universal blood donor to one of the War Boys, Nux (Nicholas Hoult) who is eager to meet his destiny at the foot of Joe’s calling when Joe and […]

My Two Cents: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)

Lee B. Golden III

Given that I’m not too well-learned on comic books and their correlation to movies as of late, I won’t get too much into the technical aspects of director Joss Whedon‘s Avengers: Age Of Ultron. I’m no superhero geek and I really just try to absorb what I see from a filmic aspect, and dozens of reviews about this film have been written already, so there’s nothing I can really add to the conversation that other early reviews have already mentioned on other sites. What I will say though, is that I recommend seeing it. It’s definitely a kids’ movie and fun to watch with some mature and grown moments. A lot of the dialogue was a bit dry for my taste in points where I expected to laugh out loud and for about half of the movie, I didn’t – maybe that’s just me, while the action was much more […]

My Two Cents: SPECIAL ID (2013)

Lee B. Golden III

Director Teddy Chen’s Kung Fu Killer is getting a limited theatrical and digital release here in the U.S. starting this Friday. In light of this, I decided to rent action star Donnie Yen‘s 2013 cop thriller, Special ID, one in a thematic trilogy of stylish MMA-formated Hong Kong action movies following the hits he’s had with director Wilson Yip on S.P.L. in 2005, and Flash Point several years later. Yen‘s role is one that transcends between actors on all three films in line with the familiar plot centric on an undercover cop in danger of being found out by the very criminal outfit he is investigating with every minute he gets closer to ending it. Here, Yen‘s iteration of said character, Chen Zilong, has been under for so long that even his own standing among his police force is dwindling whilst he adheres to his status as ‘big brother’ in […]