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Film review: ‘MIDSOMMAR’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Ari 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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Film review: ‘PALM BEACH’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Palm Beach, the new Aussie relationship drama from director Rachel Ward, builds its story around a very familiar template: A group of older middle-aged, upper middle-class friends come together for a weekend where amiable socialising gives way to people venting hidden resentments, revealing past infidelities and lamenting personal disappointments. At the screening, star Bryan brown said the story was inspired

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Film review ‘THE NIGHTINGALE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

In her breakthrough horror film, The Babadook, writer director Jennifer Kent used a supernatural menace to represent the threat and anxiety experienced by a single mother played by Esse Davis. Her latest film, the gruelling historical drama, The Nightingale, sees a woman and an indigenous man confronted by a more realistic threat in the brutal racist patriarchy of a British

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LIVE SUNDAY SESSIONS – MAT BLACK

Yes, the Live Sunday Sessions return this week (funnily enough on Sunday afternoon from 4pm) with excellent guest Mat Black and his band heading in to provide an hour of joy and live tunes from the notorious orange studio. The Melbourne singer/songwriter blends a beautiful combination of americana/alt.country/southern rock with thoughtful, sincere and heartfelt lyrics with the backing of some

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 30th August 2019

It’s just over a year since the world lost one of the greatest singers of all time, Aretha Franklin. This week sees the release (after many decades) of ‘Amazing Grace’ a film by Sydney Pollack that documents Aretha’s performance at a Baptist church in 1972 and this Friday ‘Built For Speed’ will tell you all about that film. We also take

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BEST MEDICINE

BEST MEDICINE – today – a book for Fathers’ Day; then later, I’ll talk with Joanne Drayton, author who will be presenting the awards at Sisters in Crime’s upcoming Davitt Awards Night; plus there’s lots more information. Please join me, Gaytana

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