This week on Built For Speed we take a look at two very different movies: Rolf de Heer’s latest film, low-key drama Charlie’s Country and big-budget fantasy block-buster Hercules. There’s also plenty of fine music with a selection of favourite tracks from across the decades and new material from Honey Blood, Temples and many others. Don’t forget our regular round-up
Read moreMrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie is the big-screen adaptation of the surprisingly successful TV sit-com Mrs Brown’s Boys a gleeful yet rarely funny throwback to the broad British working class sit-coms of the 1970’s. I grew up with shows like On the Buses, Benny Hill, Dick Emery, Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language so I have some nostalgic affection for
Read moreIt may be clever, politically aware and intellectually dense but comedy/ drama The French Minister is one of the most annoying films of the year. Like a quirky, manic French take on The West Wing, this journey into the hyper-stressed world of French politics mostly consists of obnoxious, arrogant buffoons spouting grandiose and mostly incomprehensible waffle. The main offender is
Read moreThe ever-controversial Roman Polanski is back with his latest film Venus in Fur. This film which depicts an audition for a play which is based on another play which is based on a novel and which also toys with perceptions of Polanski himself, takes the concept of a meta-movie to a bizarre new level. Not surprisingly, it’s hard to tell
Read moreRise of The Planet of The Apes from 2011 achieved the rare feat of rebooting a franchise in a fresh, intelligent and exciting fashion. Essentially a remake of the fourth film in the original series, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the thoughtful, inventive and moving Rise revealed how lab apes, exposed to an experimental Alzheimer’s treatment, developed higher
Read moreThere’s a good chance that people who have never set foot on a skateboard will have heard of American champion Tony Hawk. Few outside the skating world, however, would be aware of Tas and Ben Pappas two Australian skateboard champion brothers who, throughout a tumultuous career, regularly defeated Hawk with Tas becoming world number one in the mid 1990’s. The
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