M. Night Shyamalan burst onto to the scene with his clever, creepy, atmospheric and twist-laden debut The Sixth Sense. Unfortunately, the quality of his films has plummeted since with his nadir being the dreadful The Lady in the Water. Has he redeemed himself with straight forward sci fi action pic After Earth? Unfortunately the answer is, No! After Earth, which
Read moreFew things kill a film’s credibility quicker than gratuitous product placement. The sense of a purely commercial imperative invading a film is about as palatable as a bucket of cold sick. The Internship, the latest film for Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan, takes product placement to a new and disturbing level. We don’t just have an ad placed in a
Read moreFast and Furious 6, which sounds like the title of a ballsier Enid Blyton novel, is an utterly preposterous action film that verges on “so bad it’s good” territory. This is a film for the computer game generation so forget realism and consequences, just imbibe the hedonistic and unbridled destruction in a film so ridiculous and so disconnected from reality
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we feature bands with legendary drummers including The Who, Cheap Trick, Led Zeppelin, Spiderbait and many more. We also cast a critical eye over the latest instalment in the Fast and The Furious film franchise and M. Night Shyamalan’s sci fi parable After Earth. Don’t forger our regular preview of gigs and TV for
Read moreThis Saturday morning at 10am RGG returns with a visit to the year 1977. The year of STAR WARS, the Granville train disaster, horrific fashion (see pics), Meatloaf, Andy Gibb and ABBA. Fleetwood Mac, Boz Scaggs and ELO were doing some of their best work, Close Encounters of the Third Kid, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey & The Bandit and Slapshot
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