Oscar nominated director names three must-watch action masterpieces
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An Oscar nominated director has named their suggestions for an action movie marathon by telling fans to watch three masterpieces in one night.
Celine Song received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for her debut feature Past Lives. She has since gone on to make rom-com Materialists. She previously worked on the television series The Wheel of Time as a writer.
Her new film stars Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. It was released earlier this year in the US and finally hits UK cinemas on August 15.
Materialists sees a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
However, while promoting the film, she took some time out to recommend her favourite titles in a very different genre. Thankfully for audiences at home, each film is currently streaming via Sky Cinema or Now with a movies pass.
Asked to pick out her perfect movie marathon during an interview with Empire magazine, she said: "I would say I think you should watch Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón, and then I think you should follow it up with edge of tomorrow by Doug Liman, and then I think you should watch Mad Max Fury Road by George Miller."
Explaining her decisions she goes on to say: "What I love and respect about all three of those movies and why I think they're perfect companions to each other is because they are great action films where we get to enjoy the parts of cinema that like drives us to go to the cinemas but is also going to have very real political ideologies and beliefs in what we want the world to be and I think that's what I really love and respect about it."
She continued: "And the characters are so amazing and it's actually some of the best written things ever. The direction is insane but it's not a mindless action thing, it's always going to have something deeply ideologically interesting and very political and socially significant."
It seems that these should be fan favourite picks that were also critical hits as each scored more than 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Edge of Tomorrow managed 91%, Children of Men 92% while Fury Road earned an impressive 97%.
For those that are not familiar with these three films, Edge of Tomorrow is set in 2027, where humanity faces extinction after it fails to reproduce for 18 years. When, a woman gets pregnant, a federal agent, played by Clive Owen protects her as she holds the key to humanity's survival.
Edge of Tomorrow sees Tom Cruise's Captain Cage trapped in a time loop as he is forced to enter the battlefield after alien forces launch an attack on Earth and threaten to wipe out the human race. He must team up with Emily Blunt's warrior to save the planet.
Mad Max Fury Road sees Tom Hardy take over the role of the titular character from Mel Gibson, in an apocalyptic world, where a tyrant rules over a stark desert, controlling every drop of water. Two rebels, one escaping grief and the other reaching out to her childhood, are the last hope for a few.
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