10-4! Drive Invasion presents exploitation convoy

Breaker 1-9, good buddies — any of you got your ears on? This year’s Drive Invasion Festival emphasizes the “drive” with films that run the gamut from car crashes to truck crashes, with some 1970s-era exploitation and revenge themes thrown in. Following an afternoon of rock music and hot rods at the Starlight Drive In, the tailgate party-style film festival presents five films from 1971-1981, along with Three Stooges and Mr. Magoo shorts. The most recent on the bill is unquestionably the best: George Miller’s The Road Warrior (a.k.a. Mad Max 2), the classic post-apocalyptic action film in which Mel Gibson’ plays a tough, taciturn drifter who loves his dog and hates Jewish people mohawked scavengers who prey on the the last outpost of civilization. If you’ve never seen it on the big screen, you’ve gotta check it out, especially because Miller’s making a sequel called Fury Road with Inception’s Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.