Animated adventure Storks is one of the big school holiday releases. Despite its cute premise, sparkling animation, elaborate set pieces and a deluge of sight gags, this film may,however, leave the intended youngster audience confused and dissatisfied. The film follows a familiar plot device in which a mythical gift giving service is depicted as a modern day manufacturing business. This
Read moreThe original Blair Witch Project from 1999 was a genuinely creepy and inventive supernatural horror film that popularised found-footage cinema and ushered in an era of viral internet marketing campaigns. The hype surrounding the film claimed that it was recovered footage of three documentary film makers who, while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch in the Black Hills Forest
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at animated adventure Storks and Blair Witch, the sequel/ remake of iconic 90’s film The Blair Witch Project. We’ll also tell you about the Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week and play some classic Beatles tracks. There’s also plenty of great music from more recent times with excellent new releases from the
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 16th September 2016 THE CAVEDOGS – Tayter country. THE MEANIES – The shallow end’s mine. (Aus) THE OH SEES – Web (live). CHOOK RACE – Sometimes. (Aus) COURTNEY LOVE – Mono. DAN AUERBACH – Whispered words. WILD FLAG – Romance. SURFER BLOOD – Swim. SUEDE – New generation. PULP – Disco 2000. SUPERGRASS – Cheapskate BLUR
Read moreEver since Jaws terrified beach-goers out of the water in 1975, sharks have been a cinematic symbol of menace and primal terror. There’s something particularly unnerving about floating around in the vast inky blackness of the ocean knowing that a huge, hungry razor-tooth creature could appear from nowhere and start munching on you. The Shallows, the latest film from Non-stop
Read moreIn 2011 Bridesmaids set the standard for female raunch comedy. Neatly balancing obscenity and sensitivity the film showed that women behaving badly can be just as funny as men. Bad Moms aims to one-up Bridesmaids by taking those paragons of virtue, responsibility and compliance, namely, mothers and having them gleefully cast off the shackles of both domestic servitude and society’s
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