West of Memphis is a powerful and sometimes infuriating documentary that describes the events surrounding the plight of the so-called West Memphis Three. On May 6th 1993 the bound bodies of three eight year old boys: Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steven Branch were pulled from a creek in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Local teenagers Damien Echols, Jason
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 8th FEBRUARY 2013 1. TINY MIGRANTS – A Public Execution. (Aus) 2. CUSTOM KINGS – Sunday. (Aus) 3. LITTLE BIRDY – Run run run. (Aus) 4. TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. 5. THE STRAIGHT ARROWS – Lies. (Aus) 6. GARY CLARK JR – Bright lights. 7. TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – Scissor people. 8.
Read moreMovie 43 raises two important questions, why are there so many big stars in this dog of a film and why the hell was it made in the first place? This alleged comedy unbelievably represents the collaboration of multiple directors led by Peter Farrelly and a huge roster of name actors including Richard Gere, Hugh Hackman, Naomi Watts and Halle
Read moreAbraham Lincoln is such a towering and mythic figure in American history it seemed inevitable that American cinema’s great story teller Steven Spielberg would make a film about him. Lincoln is not, however, the emotionally manipulative epic we might have expected from Spielberg, instead it’s a dour, low-key and thoughtful look at an introspective and conflicted man. Like the Hitchcock
Read moreIt’s a massive show this week on Built For Speed. With the Oscars rapidly approaching it’s time to look at two of the major statue contenders Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. It’s also time for Built For Speed’s classic album and this week we go back to 1973 for The Rolling Stones’ Goats Head Soup. There’s also plenty of great
Read moreZero Dark Thirty, which is director Katherine Bigelow’s follow-up to her Oscar winning The Hurt Locker, describes the 10 year CIA mission that lead to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. With this film it again seems that the movies are borrowing from TV rather than the other way around. Much like The Wire, Zero Dark Thirty is a detailed
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