‘Built For Speed’ explores different ends of the movie spectrum this week with reviews of raunch comedy Bad Moms and the philosophical drama Indignation, a film adapted from the Phillip Roth novel. There’s plenty of fine music with new Aussie tracks including bands like Cable Ties, some classics and our continuing look at the best songs of the millennium so far.
Read moreThis week it’s a packed show on ‘Built For Speed’ as we take a look at two of the big cinema releases, Absolutely Fabulous and DC Comics adaptation Suicide Squad. We’ll do a MIFF round-up featuring Jim Jarmusch’s Iggy and the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger and moon landing conspiracy comedy Operation Avalanche. We’ll also continue our look at the best songs
Read moreThe Conjuring 2, director James Wan’s sequel to his impressive 2013 retro ghost story is a fiercely effective spook-fest that betters the first movie for one of the best mainstream horror films of recent years. Like the first film, The Conjuring 2 claims to be based on real events and is once again plucked from the case files of ghost
Read moreWith massive script changes and ridiculous internet fan boy hatred over the switch to an all-female cast, the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot had a troubled birth. On paper, though, the film had potential for a raunchier comic take on the much-loved 1984 original as it reunited the Bridesmaids team of Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig. Unfortunately, little of
Read moreSomewhere between endearingly quirky and irritatingly pretentious writer director Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan is the latest in what could be termed the alternative rom-com genre, a filmmaking style typified by the works of Noah Baumbach. It’s also part of that growing cinematic sub-genre, the Greta Gerwig film, in which Gerwig plays the lovably ditzy but still capable and philosophical young
Read moreThe awkwardly titled Septembers of Shiraz, a cinema adaptation of the successful 2007 Dalia Sofer novel, has been pilloried by critics. Much of the invective is justified although this film isn’t quite the monstrous squawking turkey filmgoers might fear. Septembers of Shiraz places us amid the epochal events of Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. The focus of the
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