This week on Built For Speed we take a look at one of the most confronting films of the year in Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. We also review Mystery Road the latest film for Australian director Ivan Sen who impressed so much with his feature debut Beneath Clouds. We also speak to Eddie Tamir, director
Read moreFollowing the disappointment of his last film, the plot-free and mostly laugh-free comedy The Boat that Rocked, Richard Curtis, who also wrote and directed the very fine Love Actually, returns to what he does best: charming, witty rom-coms with sensitive, floppy-haired Englishman. As with all Richard Curtis’ films, his latest effort, About Time is set in an alternate universe where
Read moreThe wonderfully tense and gruelling kidnap drama Prisoners is one of the year’s best films. Relentlessly gripping and often disturbing, the film depicts a parent’s worst nightmare as two little girls mysteriously disappear from a Thanksgiving Day celebration. With the police investigation floundering, one of the girls’ Fathers, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and the investigating detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) resort
Read moreMystery Road is the latest film for writer, director Ivan Sen who achieved critical acclaim with his ethereal debut feature Beneath Clouds in 2002. This crime drama features many of the impressive stylistic touches that made Beneath Clouds so striking but with its glacial pace and thin plot may tax the patience of some audiences. Aaron Pederson (Jack Irish, Water
Read moreFather Bob McGuire, former parish priest of South Melbourne is a much loved, larger-than-life figure who, as a result of his mischievous, outspoken manner, pugnacious opposition to what he sees as antiquated Catholic Church practices and his life-long support of those less fortunate, has become an unlikely celebrity. In 2009, the Catholic Church hierarchy informed Father Bob that, at 75,
Read moreIt’s classic album time once again on Built For Speed and this Friday we head back to 1996 to take a look at You Am I’s power pop masterpiece Hourly Daily. There’s also plenty of current rock and alternative music including Superchunk and Saskwatch. This week we also take a look at two music-related movies: concert film Metallica – Through the Never and
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