There was no competition when it came to choosing my first Peak Oil Flicks pick. It had to be Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, filmdom’s most prescient allegory of life without oil. Certainly, other films have trod this same terrain of post-apocalyptic dystopias — The Terminator, Damnation Alley, Panic in the Year Zero and many more. But Road Warrior is the entry that cuts right … [Read more...]
A fountainhead of foolishness, Rand-style
If you're one of the 16 or so people who has seen the recent release of Atlas Shrugged: Part I, you’ll be heartened to know there’s another Ayn Rand film adaptation to enjoy while you’re waiting for the next Atlas installment (but don’t hold your breath). That film is The Fountainhead, released in 1949. Russian-born Ayn Rand (1905-1982), a staunch anti-Communist, promulgated … [Read more...]