A strange mash-up of M Night Shyamalan’s better work and Meet the Parents, the socially perceptive, comedy-inflected horror film Get Out is an impressive directorial debut for Jordan Peel. Here, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is the boyfriend nervously heading to a first encounter with his girlfriend’s parents. He’s particularly anxious because his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) hasn’t mentioned to
Read moreCelebrated and provocative French director Francois Ozon’s latest film Frantz is a slow-moving but undeniably affecting piece of cinematic art. Set in 1919 with Europe physically and emotionally scarred by the First World War, the film focuses on young German woman Anna (Paula Beer) whose fiancée Frantz (Anton von Lucke) was killed in the trenches in France. Visiting the cemetery
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ casts a critical eye over two big commercial cinema releases, the latest ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ and (believe it or not) a big screen adaptation of ‘Baywatch’ which stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Zac Efron. There’s plenty of great music with favourites and new tracks from Australia and
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ takes you from one extreme of the cinema world to another as we review ‘Whitely’, a documentary about the iconic Australian artist and then tell you if Guy Ritchie’s medieval adventure, ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ does the famous tale justice. We also have plenty of fine tunes with some 80’s and 90’s classics
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at one of the more intriguing films of 2017, psychological thriller ‘Get Out’. We also review one of less intriguing films of 2017, the Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn comedy ‘Snatched’. There’ll be plenty of fine tunes new and old with recent releases from Cable Ties, The Pink Tiles and many others as
Read moreWith his latest film, Personal Shopper writer/director Olivier Assayas uses the supernatural horror medium as a way of externalising his lead character’s anxieties. This makes for an occasionally perplexing film but also an intriguing and genuinely spooky one. Kristen Stewart is Maureen, the eponymous shopper who works as a personal assistant to famous French fashion designer, Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten).
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