La La Land is Whiplash director Damien Chazelle’s exhilarating homage to 1950’s musicals and the artists who struggle to make it in the dubious city of dreams that is LA. Superbly crafted from its touching love story to its vibrant cinematography and sprightly musical numbers this is a cinematic experiment that works from beginning to end. Chazelle’s triumph is his
Read moreWhy Him?, which stars Bryan Cranston, James Franco and Zoey Deutch, attempts to update the old-fashioned Father Knows Best-style comedy to the less wholesome digital generation. It also vaguely recalls Meet the Parents but while that film was genuinely funny and was able to cleverly balance quirky humour with familial warmth this movie subjects us to irritating characters and for
Read moreRed Dog was one of recent Australian cinema’s greatest success stories, an unassuming and charming family film that ended up being a box office hit. Red Dog proved (as we should have already known) that films about Australia and our national culture will find an audience. With that film’s success a sequel was inevitable. While unlikely to become as iconic
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 6th January 2017 QUEEN – Let me entertain you. SASKWATCH – I get lonely. (Aus) HALFWAY – Dropout. (Aus) TEETH AND TONGUE – Cupcake. (Aus) DAVID BOWIE – Moonage Daydream. STATUS QUO – Rockin’ all over the world. GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot the dog. THE REPLACEMENTS – Little mascara. TOM WAITS – Hang down your head.
Read moreGimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s sensational documentary about the real godfathers of punk The Stooges. With Iggy pop’s distinctive voice infusing the film as a simultaneous interviewee and narrator, Gimme Danger reveals the band’s tumultuous birth in late 60’s Detroit, their flirtation with stardom in the early 70’s, their battles with critical and record company indifference and their descent into
Read moreHappy New Year everyone. For ‘Built For Speed’s’ first show of 2017 we take a look at the sequel to one of Australia’s most successful films, Red Dog with Red Dog:True Blue. We also let you know whether Why Him?, which stars James Franco and Bryan Cranston, is actually funny or yet another Hollywood comedy dud. With the Oscars approaching we begin
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