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[GEORGE-MILLER]
FILM№ 01
Furiosa and the country George Miller will not leave
Two years after Furiosa underperformed in May 2024, the picture has clarified into the most patiently photographed film of George Miller's career, and possibly the last one he will shoot in the Hay plains.
BRONTE HAUGHEY08.05.2026
FILM№ 02
George Miller made a film about storytelling and the audience wanted another car chase
Miller's most personal film is also his most ignored, and the distance between the two says more about the audience than the director.
BRONTE HAUGHEY28.01.2026
MUSIC№ 03
The sound of the Wasteland from Brian May to Junkie XL
The Mad Max franchise has been scored four different ways across forty-five years, and the engine noise is the only constant.
KIERAN BOUSTANY20.01.2026
ESSAYS№ 04
Furiosa and the question of what Australian cinema is allowed to be
George Miller spent half a billion dollars in the desert and the result is the most expensive Australian film ever made, which is also the most Australian.
MARA DENG08.10.2025
INDUSTRY№ 05
Furiosa opened to $8.5 million in Australia and the number needs context
The domestic opening was soft against the budget but strong against every other Australian film this decade, and both facts are true.
ODETTE MALOUF28.05.2024
FILM№ 06
Furiosa opened to a half-empty cinema and the film did not care
George Miller spent a decade building Furiosa and the audience showed up late, but the film was always playing to a longer clock.
BRONTE HAUGHEY28.05.2024
MUSIC№ 07
Junkie XL scored Furiosa like an engine that remembers being a heartbeat
The score carries the franchise's mechanical pulse into a prequel that needs to feel human, and the transition is where the music earns its weight.
KIERAN BOUSTANY22.05.2024
FILM№ 08
Three Thousand Years of Longing is George Miller arguing with himself in a hotel room
Miller put two actors in a room and asked what stories are for, and the film answers with images that cost more than most Australian features.
BRONTE HAUGHEY14.09.2022