Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Jul 22, 2026 6:30PM

Browning Cinema

New at the Browning
Directed by George Miller, George Ogilvie
With Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Frank Thring
Rated R, 107 minutes, DCP
Film begins at 7:00 p.m.!

The third film in the Mad Max series and the last one starring Mel Gibson, this one broke the mold so that it took nearly four decades for Mad Max to return in Fury Road. Like all of the Mad Max sequels, this title definitely can be enjoyed without knowledge of the earlier iterations. Most quickly recognized as ‘the one with Tina Turner in it,’ Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome takes a particular American Western film premise and infuses it with more post-apocalyptic dune buggies, explosions, and science fiction than what one gets in, say, High Noon. The scenario sees Mad Max (Gibson) arriving in Bartertown, a town ruled by the evil despot Auntie Entity (Turner), where he must fight as a gladiator in order to save himself and the citizens oppressed by Auntie Entity’s regime.

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