This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Al Cossar, Programmer of the Melbourne International Film Festival about the amazing range of cinematic treats on offer this year. We also take a look at new releases ‘Baby Driver’ and the Radio Birdman documentary, ‘Descent Into the Maelstrom’. There’ll be plenty of great music with recent favourites from Wilco, Kings
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ passes its verdict on the latest cinematic Spiderman reboot with our review of ‘Spiderman: Homecoming’. We also take a look at psychological, post-apocalyptic horror in Joel Edgerton’s latest film ‘It comes at night’. On the music front there are plenty of fine tunes new and old from Australia and across the globe including, just for Bastille
Read moreThe film Churchill often feels as if director Johnathon Teplitzky and writer Alex von Tunzelmann have taken The King’s Speech and replaced King George the Sixth with Winston Churchill. Both films are about a British leader confronting self-doubt and the crushing responsibility to their people in the dark days of the Second World War. Churchill is not a comprehensive biopic
Read moreWe shouldn’t expect much from a Baywatch cinema adaptation and this film certainly lives down to expectations. Often the problem with movies based on TV shows is that the filmmakers try to stuff the TV show’s concept into a generic action comedy template and in the process lose the show’s essence and appeal. It’s the same deal here except that,
Read more1979 was a tumultuous year particularly in the US where the Iran hostage saga, an energy crises and economic and social fragmentation severely dented the nation’s sense of supremacy and led to serious lack of confidence in the political system and the values that had driven the nation since its founding; something upon which Ronald Reagan and corporate America later
Read moreIt’s a movie fest this week on ‘Built For Speed’ as we take a look at two school holiday offerings ‘Despicable Me 3’ and ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’ and for an older audience we review drama ‘The Promise’. There’s also plenty of great music with new tracks from Babaganouj and Pink Tiles, classics from decades past
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