The 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
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we have a look at the most recent Oscar contender released in our cinemas, the dramatization of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s march through Alabama in Selma. We also review Colin Firth’s new role in believe it or not an action/comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service. There’s plenty of fine music from Australia and overseas
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist Friday 30th January 2015 THE WALKMEN – Angela surf city. THE GO TEAM – Buy nothing day. TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. QUEEN – Modern times rock’n’roll. KENNY ROGERS – The Gambler. ACE FREHLEY – Back in the New York groove. SUZI QUATRO – Rock hard. SUN GOD REPLICA – Who’s gonna die. (Aus)
Read moreThe riveting true-crime drama Foxcatcher explores the strange and catastrophic relationship between champion American wrestling brothers Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and their disturbed patron, du Pont chemical company head John du Pont (Steve Carrell). Mark Schultz won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the LA Olympics in ’84 but neither lucrative endorsements nor regular income
Read moreRenowned physicist Stephen Hawking is such a towering figure he has moved beyond the cloistered world of science and academia to become a pop-cultural icon. He has even earned the occasional appearance on the Big Bang Theory where he regularly taunts Sheldon. The Theory of Everything dramatises Hawking’s (Eddie Redmayne) life during what is arguably his most productive and tumultuous
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