The Wachowski’s latest film, space opera Jupiter Ascending may be visually spectacular bit its barrage of multi-million dollar effects can’t compensate for an outrageously silly and confusingly plot. The Wachowski’s appear to have taken scripting lessons from David Lynch’s version of Dune as Jupiter Ascending makes no sense. Pinching bits of Star Wars, Flash Gordon and the Wachowski’s own Matrix
Read moreWhat We Did On Our Holiday is a quirky, charming and often funny film that still manages to provides a sobering look at volatile and dysfunctional relationships. The ubiquitous Rosamund Pike and former Dr Who David Tennant play a recently separated couple Abi and Doug who are trying to maintain the illusion that they’re still together so as to not
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist Friday 13th February 2015 DANZIG – Long way back from hell. SLEATER KINNEY – Words and Guitars. WILD FLAG – Romance. EX HEX – Waterfall. THE BRONX – Ribcage. UNDERGROUND LOVERS – Can for now. (Aus) SUEDE – Hit me. MR BLONDE – I’m a disease. (Aus) HOWLING BELLS – Original sin. (Aus) ROYAL HEADACHE
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist Friday 6th February 2015 THE VIEW – Grace. DALLAS CRANE – Dirty Hearts. (Aus) JEREMY NEALE – In stranger times (Aus) SONS OF RICO – This madness. (Aus) JEREMY NEALE – A love affair to keep you there. (Aus) THE JAYHAWKS – Blue. CALEXICO – Black Heart. THE RASPBERRIES – Go all the way. ANDY
Read moreThe title of the film Selma refers to the Alabama town in which Martin Luther King Jr organised marches to protest the obstruction of voting rights for black Americans in the south. As anyone familiar with recent American history will recall, one of these protests turned hideously violent when state troopers, police under the command of Sheriff Jim Clark and
Read moreKickass and X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughan’s latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service is a slick, inventive, action-packed but hollow pastiche of British spy movies. Drawing on the Bond films, the 1960’s TV show The Avengers and Men in Black, the film concerns a secret organisation of tweed-coated gentlemen spies known as The Kingsman who operate outside the reach
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