This Saturday is the 70th birthday of one of the all-time great film directors Martin Scorsese. This week on Built For Speed we look back at our favourite Scorsese films and the ones that didn’t quite cut it. We also review Oscar-buzz, feel-good flick The Sessions and bizarro blood-fest Seven Psychopaths. There’s also plenty of fine music including a selection of
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 11th NOVEMBER 2012 1. ALICE COOPER – Elected. 2. JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION – Danger. 3. ONEIDA – I will haunt you. 4. ICE CREAM HANDS – The way she drives.(Aus) 5. SIMPLE MINDS – Speed your love to me. 6. B.A.D. – Bottom line. 7. WEEZER – Island in the sun. 8. IGGY AND THE
Read moreBridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits. Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing. Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful
Read moreBridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits. Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing. Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful
Read moreDredd 3D is a right-wing action fantasy set in a depressing future in which police have become judge, jury and very willing executioner. The film is set in a grim post-apocalyptic future in which cities gave been replaced by hideously polluted, overcrowded and crime-riddled mega cities. Apparently the only way to improve living standards in this dysfunctional world is to
Read moreAfter the wonderful nostalgic fantasy Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s European tour hits a major pothole with the uninspired To Rome with love. This frothy, feather-light film features mostly unsympathetic characters in the midst of mild romantic dilemmas that are rarely interesting or funny. The film has four main story threads all of which examine the strange corrupting lure of
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