Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast Rhys Marks, Kane Murcott

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONThe world of Mad Max has been corrupt by a sickness. Not radiation poisoning, but rather, the cocaine-fueled 80s - at it's gotten into every pore of this sequel.A war has passed, and Max now has luscious locks of hair to accompany his fists of fury. Constantly evolving, the wasteland has met its next stage, full of mutants and live-action cartoon characters. At least we can feel at home knowing there's still a whole lot of sand around.Rhys and Kane dive into this ins...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONIt's madder. It's Maxer. It's 2er.Max is now a lonely, hardened, high-definition man - taking on the wasteland that was thrust upon him.The world has deeply entered an apocalypse, and turned to a primitive hellscape. We rejoin Max with everything lost, forced to realise that it isn't about the destination, but the friends you make along the way (no one says this directly, but it is what happens).Rhys and Kane put their seatbelts on for a full-throttle sequel that emp...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONIt's about time the Australian boys take on a franchise from their great nation. Time for a visit to the motherland. Warm your engines, because they're taking on Mad Max.The first Mad Max is not what most imagine when they picture pop culture's favourite rev-head, but it is the closest glimpse we've gotten so far of how the world turned into the wasteland. We see how Max actually became mad; and its an interesting tale nonetheless.Rhys, self-defined Mad-Max-maniac, r...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThe Hostel world-tour is complete and it's time to put it all into perspective. How do these films fare as a franchise?A quicky, but a goody; this trilogy of torture is taken from underground theatrical, to straight-to-DVD entertainment, taking a simple concept and creating a world and mythology in the long-run. Eli Roth may not have been there for all of the films, but Rhys and Kane sure were (for better and for worse). The pair band together to rank the trilogy...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONWhat happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.A Hostel direct-to-DVD sequel - did not know this was going to happen. The Elite Hunting Club has expanded to the city of sin, and we follow a group of degenerate men on a bachelor's-weekend in Vegas, where they indulge in all of the vices, only to find themselves in vices by the end.Rhys and Kane explore if Eli Roth leaving the franchise, tears down the solid fabric of the series, or if this strange cousin of a movie may become a...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThis one's for the girls.A feminist masterpiece? Not quite. But this follow up is a nice counterpart to the heavily dude-oriented first film, with possibly a lot more to say: about female-focused objectification, uber-rich greed, and incel culture.'Hostel: Part II' sees us go back to Slovakia, with a trio of adventurous young women. Obviously, they have a trip full of friendship, fun and pictures of tourist destinations; and none of the women get tortured (spoiler ale...