Iranian director Ashgar Farhadi’s The Salesman recently won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Farhadi caused the evening’s second most controversial moment when he refused to appear because of his disapproval of the US government’s travel ban on citizens from selected countries. Instead he had an Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari read a powerful statement about the dangers of divisiveness.
Read moreStephan Elliot’s 2012 wedding comedy A Few Best Men attempted to transplant Death at a Funeral-style British farce to Australia. Juvenile and dismally unfunny it was a painful experience to sit through. Astonishingly, we now have a sequel to that film. A Few Less Men now directed by Mark Lamprell but still scripted by the first film’s writer Dean Craig
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 17th March 2017 YOU AM I – Trike. (Aus) JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – Fire. VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO – I’m waiting for the man. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD – Expecting to fly. THE KINKS – Waterloo Sunset. THE CLASH – Janie Jones. QUEEN – Sheer Heart Attack. FLEETWOOD MAC – Go your own way. ELVIS COSTELLO – Welcome
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a musical journey through time beginning in 1967 then bounding to 1977 and onward across the decades to 2017. We’ll play classic rock, experimental music, early punk, indie rock and much more. There’s also plenty to talk about in the film world as review the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, ‘The Salesman’ then we
Read moreTrainspotting (1996) was, for many, the defining film of Generation X, a hedonistic high-energy, cocktail of heroin addiction, pop-cultural critique and violent dysfunctional mateship. Filled with smart, lacerating dialogue and propelled by one of the best and most cleverly deployed soundtracks in movie history it was a ferocious statement of a youth culture questioning the consumerism, conservatism and political passivity
Read moreIn political drama Miss Sloane, Jessica Chastain plays Liz Sloane a powerful and influential Washington DC lobbyist notorious for her ruthless pursuit of victory on any issue. With Pitbull-like ferocity and the relentlessness of the Terminator she twists facts in what is euphemistically referred to as re-framing to ensure her client wins the debate. Initially working for a right-wing firm
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