This week ‘Built For Speed’ tells you all about the latest cinematic incarnation of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, Inferno which once again stars Tom Hanks as the intrepid and trouble prone symbology professor. We also take a look at one of the stranger films of the year the MIFF sensation The Handmaiden from Korea’s Park Chan-Wook. There’s also plenty
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we blast away Melbourne’s unseasonal genital freezing weather with a searing selection of tunes. There’s classics from bands (such as the Beastie Boys) who have crossed over from the underground to mainstream adulation, more favourite songs of the millennium (so far), new Aussie music and much more. On the cinema front we take a
Read moreIt’s been a good year for horror films and this week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at Iranian spook fest Under the Shadow. We also investigate some equally scary creatures, Wall Street bankers in the financial drama Equity. There’s a feast of fine music as we delve into some new releases, indie rock classics, more of our favourite songs
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ it’s a movie fest as we review the latest blockbusters and art house fare. We’ll let you know whether the remake of the Magnificent Seven is worthy of the famed original and you’re cinema dollar. We’ll also investigate Iranian drama Wednesday May 9 and a Wall Street backstabbing frenzy in Equity. On the music
Read moreAnimated 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
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