It’s a packed show this week on ‘Built For Speed’ as we speak to the Artistic Director of the Alliance Francais French Film Festival, Emmanuelle Denavit-Feller. We also tell you all about the Albert Hammond Jr gig from the Corner Hotel last Sunday, provide a wrap-up of The Grammys, preview the Oscars and review Zoolander No.2. There’s also a feast of
Read moreThe original Zoolander was a genuinely funny, inventive comedy that affectionately mocked the bizarre world of high fashion. With its endearingly silly humour, excellent use of music and its unusually striking pop-art visual style, the film melted audience cynicism and ensconced itself in that list of repeat watch DVD’s. It greatest triumph, though, was to create indelible characters who have
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 19th February 2016 COLD CHISEL – 20th Century. (Aus) THE GOOCH PALMS – Tiny insight. (Aus) MIA DYSON – Tearing up the lawn. (Aus) THE MEANIES – There’s a gap. (Aus) MARLON WILLIAMS – Miss lonesome. (Aus) THE GOOCH PALMS – We get by. (Aus) RED KROSS – The lady in the front row. TEENAGE FANCLUB
Read moreThere’s been a heated critical reaction to the Zoolander sequel and this week ‘Built For Speed’ lends their ten cents worth to the debate. We also take a look at another critically savaged sequel, Ride Along 2 which stars Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. There’s plenty of magnificent music to enjoy as we continue our look at the best tracks
Read moreThe Transition Films Festival documentary The Price We Pay examines with impressive depth the vexing problem of big corporations avoiding tax by funnelling their income through off-shore tax havens. In this film a prestigious roster of experts including heads of economic commissions, academics and computer scientists dissect the global economy and the dangerous impact of corporate tax avoidance on the
Read moreSet amid the post-war Irish immigration to America, Brooklyn sees shy, naive young Irish woman Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronin) leave her mother and sister in the small Irish town of Enniscorthy in the early 1950’s to take up a job in a snooty department store in Brooklyn. Although, miserable and homesick at first, Eilis soon finds love with young Italian
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