Film review: MAGGIE’S PLAN, from ‘Built For Speed’

Somewhere between endearingly quirky and irritatingly pretentious writer director Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan is the latest in what could be termed the alternative rom-com genre, a filmmaking style typified by the works of Noah Baumbach. It’s also part of that growing cinematic sub-genre, the Greta Gerwig film, in which Gerwig plays the lovably ditzy but still capable and philosophical young

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 10th June 2016

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Grant Scicluna, the writer and director of new Australian drama Downriver.  We also  take a look at magical crime caper film Now You See Me 2 and the latest from Werner Herzog, Queen of the Desert.  There’s plenty of great music with new Australian and overseas tracks as well as our continuing series

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Podcast of an interview by Purple Haze presenter Mark Copolov with Bianca Moon about her new cd ‘Wildfire’ (1 hours 20 mins)

——————————————————————————————————————— In this interview with Mark Copolov, Australian country/rock artist, Bianca Moon, talks about her debut album, ‘Wildfire’. They discuss & play each track from this exciting CD. Publicist extraordinaire Michael Matthews also joins Bianca and Mark. Some of the topics they discuss are how Bianca came to the attention of Dolly Parton’s Grammy Nominated producer, Kent Wells, who signed

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Film review: ZOOTOPIA, from ‘Built For Speed’

Disney’s Zootopia is one of the best animated films of recent years. Other recent films in this genre have contained sparkling photo-realistic animation, a few clever gags and some endearing characters but Zootopia has all these qualities combined with a clever film noir-like detective plot and a variety of thoughtful and positive messages. Zootopia is set in an imaginary world

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Film review: 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, from ‘Built For Speed’

The question has plagued the internet for months, is 10 Cloverfield Lane a sequel to JJ Abrams’ breakthrough 2008 movie Cloverfield? With a marketing campaign offering tantalising snippets of footage, the film has already had movie fans salivating with expectation. This film is a minefield of spoilers so to reveal too much about the plot would be unfair. This does,

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