Chinese-American film The Farewell tells what initially seems like a predictable story of a family trying to cope with a loved-one’s terminal illness but infuses this with refreshing and often very moving honesty. In a wonderfully unaffected performance, Awkwafina, stars as Billi, a 30-year-old Chinese-American woman struggling to survive financially and succeed professionally in New York. Frequent phone chats with
Read moreChapter 1 of the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It – the story of a gang of bullied teen nerds who battle the evil clown Pennywise in the town of Derry – was hailed by fan’s of King’s novel and was universally seen as a vast improvement on the clunky 1990 mini-series. While not terrifying, it had some effective
Read moreHere on ‘Built For Speed’ we like to discuss the full spectrum of cinema and it would be hard to find two more aesthetically different films than ‘Downton Abbey’ and the IMAX Aussie crocodile doc ‘Wild Top End 3D’. This Friday we’ll let you know if these films are worth your time. We’ll also have many fine tunes for you with new Aussie
Read moreIt’s Friday the 13th, just the time to talk horror movies and this week ‘Built For Speed’ reviews the big horror release ‘It: Chapter 2’. On a slightly different note we also review family drama ‘Farewell’. The ‘Built For Speed’ crew checked out US band Greta Van Fleet at the Forum last week and we’ll tell you all about that
Read moreIn 1972, at the pinnacle if her career, Aretha Franklin chose to record an album of the gospel music she had sung as a young girl in church with her father. Rather than turn to the recording studio, Aretha decided to record it in a church with a congregation as the audience. That venue was the New Temple Missionary Baptist
Read moreAri Aster made an immediate and profound impression with his disturbing feature-length directorial debut Hereditary. A creepy supernatural thriller, Hereditary introduced a film-maker with an aesthetic style that was strikingly distinct but in its meticulous framing and vivid pristine images, also informed by legends such as Stanley Kubrick. His follow-up Midsommar exudes similar menace and boasts much of Hereditary’s visual
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