This week on Built For Speed we take a look at Brad Pitt’s action/ horror blockbuster World War Z and the new Australian film Satellite Boy. Nicholas Maksymow, director of the Russian Resurrection Film Festival will also preview the festival which runs from July 3rd-16th at Cinema Como. There’s plenty of terrific new music featuring Australian bands such as Beaches and Sons of
Read moreShaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies showed that there is something inherently comical about zombie movies. These films suggested that the sight of actors in bad makeup staggering around and chewing on people’s intestine had become ridiculous and lost its ability to shock. In that light, Brad Pitt’s latest film World War Z seemed to be courting ridicule with
Read moreWith its atmosphere of clinical creepiness, the slow-burn biotech horror film Errors Of The Human Body tries to evoke the menace David Cronenberg but is let down by a slow and uninvolving story. Set within the world of cutting edge genetic research and filmed at an actual medical facility in Dresden, Germany, this film features Michael Eklund as renowned scientist
Read moreMonsters University is a prequel to the highly successful 2001 film Monsters Inc. which was a clever and very endearing parody of both the corporate world and monster movies. In that film monsters entered the human world to frighten kiddies in their beds and in a fine example of renewable energy, used the children’s screams to power the monster world.
Read moreSatellite Boy, the debut cinematic feature for writer/ director Catriona McKenzie, is an amiable, well-meaning but dramatically flat story of an aboriginal youth’s journey of self-discovery. Newcomer, Cameron Wallaby plays Pete, a 10-year-old boy who lives on a remote and dilapidated drive-in site in the Western Australian desert. As his mother (Rohanna Angus) is away in the city trying to
Read moreThe fascinating but very brief IMAX documentary Titans of the Ice Age brings to life the world of two million years ago when ice sheets covered the earth. Narrated in typically soothing and distinguished tones by veteran actor and one time Captain Von Trapp, Christopher Plummer, the film describes the climatic conditions that brought about the various ice ages and
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