Korean Director Park Chan-wook’s thriller The Handmaiden is a bizarre and intoxicating tale of crime, seduction, greed and much more. Set in the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1920’s and divided into three parts, the film sees pickpocket Sookie (Kim Tae Ri) dispatched by her her Fagan-like boss Fujiwara (Ha Jung Woo) to the imposing mansion of wealthy weirdo Uncle Kouzuki
Read moreGimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s sensational documentary about the real godfathers of punk The Stooges. With Iggy pop’s distinctive voice infusing the film as a simultaneous interviewee and narrator, Gimme Danger reveals the band’s tumultuous birth in late 60’s Detroit, their flirtation with stardom in the early 70’s, their battles with critical and record company indifference and their descent into
Read moreHappy New Year everyone. For ‘Built For Speed’s’ first show of 2017 we take a look at the sequel to one of Australia’s most successful films, Red Dog with Red Dog:True Blue. We also let you know whether Why Him?, which stars James Franco and Bryan Cranston, is actually funny or yet another Hollywood comedy dud. With the Oscars approaching we begin
Read moreAllied is a slow-moving but effective World War 2 spy drama. The film stars Brad Pitt and Marion Cotilliard in a relationship that inevitably draws comparisons with Mr and Mrs Smith. Pitt plays Canadian Air Force group captain Max Vatan (Pitt) who teams up with French resistance operative Maryanne (Marion Cotillard) in Casablanca in 1942 to assassinate a Nazi ambassador.
Read moreBelieve it or not there’s another Underworld film about to hit our cinemas. Audiences would be forgiven for thinking these outrageously silly, borderline unwatchable S and M vampire fantasies had been consigned to the Golden Raspberry hall of fame but apparently there’s enough fan interest to warrant a fifth film in this ‘vampires versus werewolves’ saga, namely Underworld: Blood Wars.
Read moreWhile few outside the chess playing community will know this true story’s details, The Queen of Katwe is a very familiar type of film. Mixing a Slumdog Millionaire-type story in which a downtrodden person uses their unique talent to lift themselves out of poverty with a To Sir with Love-style depiction of a committed teacher inspiring underprivileged children, this film
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