This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at Brad Pitt’s latest film, sci fi epic ‘Ad Astra’. We’ll also tell you about Jim Jarmusch’s contribution to the zombie film genre, ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ which stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Adam Driver and Tom Waits. There’ll be plenty of fine tunes with new Aussie indie rock, classic
Read moreDirected by Troll Hunter’s André Øvredal and based on the book series by Alvin Schwartz, teen horror film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a stylishly made but familiar horror flick that turns spooky ‘torch under the face’ campfire tales into an It-style battle between teen nerds and a malevolent supernatural force. The ersatz Losers Club here are
Read moreThe Rambo film franchise began encouragingly in 1982 with First Blood, a convincingly raw and gritty survivalist action movie with Sylvester Stallone memorable as the Vietnam vet John Rambo battling personal demons and Sheriff Brian Dennehy. The sequels saw the quality rapidly nose-dive as Rambo transformed into a ridiculous, mulleted killing-machine who slaughtered his way through nations of evil non-Americans
Read moreAs if eight inexplicably popular movies, in the mind-numbing Fast and Furious franchise weren’t enough, the series, like a mutant beast, has sprouted another limb in the form of the ludicrous but not particularly fun spinoff, Hobbs and Shaw. This film is as punishingly loud, soulless, chaotic and utterly preposterous as previous instalments in the franchise, even though it moves
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two films on opposite ends of the movie spectrum: muscle flexing, action high jinks in ‘Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw’ and a historical documentary about a pioneering female filmmaker in ‘Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache’. We’ll also tell you all about the Alvvays
Read moreThe Aladdin story has been the subject of numerous cinema adaptations including the 1940 classic The Thief of Baghdad, the much-loved animated 1992 version with the late Robin Williams and outrageously camp English pantomimes. The latest version, a musical directed by Guy Richie, is elaborate, colourful and energetic but tonally inconsistent and not always as funny or charming as it
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