On My Shelves: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

    "Well, ain't we a pair… raggedy man?"        Back in 1979, a then-little known actor named Mel Gibson did a pretty cheap little action flick,  in which a policeman in an Australia suffering slow social breakdown falls afoul of local motorcycle gangs who, after several encounters, kill his wife and child, thereby sending him on a classic Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The name of this movie was Mad Max.        The movie, with dramatic combat sequences despite low budget, did astoundingly well (making over ninety-nine [ Continue reading... ]