Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome screens at the Enzian next week Credit: Photo courtesy the Enzian/Facebook

Despite what Tina “Aunty Entity” Turner sang in the theme song to this 1985 film, I think we can all agree that we do,

indeed, need another hero. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third installment in George Miller’s Road Warrior franchise, finds Max Rockatansky in Bartertown, a trading town run by the aforementioned Aunty. As per Miller’s formula, this is another hardscrabble outpost of post-apocalyptic “civilization” in which Mad Max must first figure out the rules, then break them in order to free the downtrodden. But in this one, everything runs on pig farts!

Don’t know about you, but these post-ecocide dystopian future films are starting to seem more like guidebooks than fantasies — be prepared to take notes.

9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 22, Enzian Theater, 1300 Orlando Ave., Maitland, 407-629-0054, enzian.org, $11.

Credit: image courtesy Enzian Theater

Enzian Theater

1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, FL

407-629-0054

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This article appears in Aug 16-22, 2023.

Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming editor in chief in 2016.