This week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at the unusual French drama ‘See You Up There’. We’ll also give you a wrap-up of other current release movies. There’s plenty of fine music for you with some live power pop, new Aussie tracks, classic rock and indie favourites. Don’t forget our regular preview of gigs and TV for the week.
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the latest offering from that now rare film genre, the musical, as we review the singing and dancing extravaganza of ‘Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again’. We’ll also take a look at droll Kiwi comedy ‘The Breaker Upperers’. There are many fine tunes for you to enjoy as we play
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ risks life and limb to review action blockbuster ‘Skyscraper’ which, like most movies these days, stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. On a slightly different note we take a look at a poignant offering from the Scandinavian film festival, Norwegian family drama ‘What Will People Say’. There’s also a feast of fine music with new Aussie
Read moreThe idea of human bodies being enhanced with technology has been a frequent sci-fi theme for decades with Robocop and The Six Million Dollar Man just two examples. Aussie writer director Leigh Whannell explores this theme in the futuristic action flick Upgrade but ads a sniff of the violent horror for which he became renowned with the disgusting Saw franchise.
Read moreBrothers’ Nest is the latest collaboration between brothers Shane and Clayton Jacobson, the pairing that brought us the breakthrough Aussie hit Kenny. Brothers’ Nest, a Cohen Brothers-esque murder drama infused with family resentment and a touch of Hitchcockian creepiness is, however, a very different beast to Kenny. Shane and Clayton play Terry and Jeff, two middle-aged brothers who have decided
Read moreA film that focuses on the period in which Mary Shelly wrote her sci-fi horror classic Frankenstein should be a thrilling prospect for anyone with a literary bent but director and co-writer Haifaa al-Mansour has transformed the biopic, Mary Shelley, into a slightly steamy, mildly gothic romance between two Derek Zoolander-approved really really good-looking people. Elle Fanning plays Mary Wollstonecraft
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