It’s a packed show on ‘Built For Speed’ this week as we take a look at two outer-space movies, sci-fi thriller ‘Life’ and IMAX documentary ‘The Search for Life in Space’. There’s also plenty of fine tunes with new tracks from Kingswood and Weezer and some classic soundtrack music. There’s a lot happening on the live entertainment front in Melbourne
Read moreLike Martin Scorsese’s A Personal Journey Through American Movies and Bertrand Tavernier’s A Journey Through French Cinema, David Stratton: A Cinematic Life sees a prominent movie identity describing the films that are most important to him and that, in many ways, shaped his life. Like the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself the perspective here is a little different as the
Read moreLoving from Take Shelter and Midnight Special writer/ director Jeff Nichols dramatises the true story of married couple Richard and Mildred Loving, who as a white man and an African American woman, in early 1960’s, Virginia were forced to battle racist attitudes and laws that threatened to destroy their relationship. Marrying out of state in Washington DC they were confronted
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 24th March 2017 THE GRATES – Call Me. (Aus) FLOP – Julie Francovillia. GAS HUFFER – Crooked Bird. GIRL TROUBLE – My Hometown. RYAN ADAMS – Do you still love me. GREEN DAY – Still breathing. BOSTON – More than a feeling. THE BEATLES – Roll over Beethoven. THE ROLLING STONES – Carol. SEX PISTOLS –
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we celebrate the music of the late Chuck Berry with some of the rock’n’roll pioneer’s originals and classic tracks that his work has influenced. We’ll also here some classics from lesser known 90’s Seattle bands who deserved a lot more recognition, some fine Aussie indie rock and much more. On the movie front we’ll
Read moreIranian director Ashgar Farhadi’s The Salesman recently won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Farhadi caused the evening’s second most controversial moment when he refused to appear because of his disapproval of the US government’s travel ban on citizens from selected countries. Instead he had an Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari read a powerful statement about the dangers of divisiveness.
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