LIVE SUNDAY SESSION PODCAST – ALANA WILKINSON

The delightful Alana Wilkinson breezed into the studios on May 7th, gave us a wonderful hour of interesting tunes and chat and then breezed right out again as she prepared to hit the road and head up the east coast to bring a little sunshine to those further north but she left us with a bunch of songs in this

Read more

Film review: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL.2, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The first Guardians of the Galaxy film caused a minor sensation as it broke from the Marvel formula for a wildly different superhero experience. That film unusually but successfully combined elaborate often spectacular special effects, thrilling action sequences, vivid art direction, piss-taking humour and Gen X pop-cultural references including classic 1970’s power pop hits. With the sequel, writer/ director James

Read more

Film Review: COLOSSAL, from ‘Built For Speed’

Colossal from writer director Nacho Vigalondo is a strange beast mixing downbeat personal drama with quirky comedy and a Kaiju monster movie; it’s an odd but mostly successful combination. Recalling Charlie’s Theron’s character from Young Adult, Anne Hathaway plays Gloria a once successful writer whose life has spiralled into drunken chaos. When her prat of a boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens)

Read more
1 662 663 664 665 666 1,179