When Mad Max: Fury Road hit cinema screens in 2015, it caused something of a storm in the realms of pop culture and movie fandom. With the Mad Max franchise being well established as a male-centric, dystopian action series, the prominence of women in its new instalment ruffled a great many feathers among male devotees who have held the character of Max Rockatansky as an icon of cinema, since his first celluloid outing in 1979. Apparently, many were hoping for another story about a traumatised, angry man who has been driven insane by grief, loss, violence and isolation, and is haunted by flashes from his past.

Mad Max: Fury Road is, instead, an expansion of the Mad...

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