This week it’s a packed show on ‘Built For Speed’ as we take a look at two of the big cinema releases, Absolutely Fabulous and DC Comics adaptation Suicide Squad. We’ll do a MIFF round-up featuring Jim Jarmusch’s Iggy and the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger and moon landing conspiracy comedy Operation Avalanche. We’ll also continue our look at the best songs
Read moreThe Conjuring 2, director James Wan’s sequel to his impressive 2013 retro ghost story is a fiercely effective spook-fest that betters the first movie for one of the best mainstream horror films of recent years. Like the first film, The Conjuring 2 claims to be based on real events and is once again plucked from the case files of ghost
Read moreWith massive script changes and ridiculous internet fan boy hatred over the switch to an all-female cast, the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot had a troubled birth. On paper, though, the film had potential for a raunchier comic take on the much-loved 1984 original as it reunited the Bridesmaids team of Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig. Unfortunately, little of
Read moreThe awkwardly titled Septembers of Shiraz, a cinema adaptation of the successful 2007 Dalia Sofer novel, has been pilloried by critics. Much of the invective is justified although this film isn’t quite the monstrous squawking turkey filmgoers might fear. Septembers of Shiraz places us amid the epochal events of Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. The focus of the
Read moreFrench drama The Measure of a Man depicts the existential hell of both unemployment and employment. The film portrays the grim life of retrenched middle-aged factory worker Thierry (Vincent Lindon) as he diligently but unsuccessfully searches for work, enduring constant knock-backs and worthless advice from his employment counsellor. With debts for his disabled son’s care mounting, he takes a job
Read moreThe restrained but powerful Turkish–French co-production, Mustang was nominated for Best Foreign Language film at this year’s Oscars and has won several European film awards and deservedly so as this is one of the year’s finest films. Cinemagoers will immediately see a resemblance between this film and Sophia Coppola’s flawed but intoxicating 1999 adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides novel, The Virgin
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