Judd Apatow’s latest film This is 40 masquerades as a comical insight into the pressures facing a married couple as they hit the big 4.0. This (kind of) sequel to Knocked Up is really just a grab-bag of politically incorrect jokes and pop culture references rather than a fully-formed story. Like Knocked Up, about a third of the gags are
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 18th JANUARY 2013 1. GREEN DAY – Stop when the red lights flash. 2. DEVIL DOGS – Baby I’m a King. 3. BIRDY NUM NUMS – Eve. 4. SOUL ASYLUM – Easy street. 5. RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS – Can’t stop. 6. THE KILLERS – Flesh and bone. 7. OF MONSTERS AND MEN – Little talks
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we review the massive Weezer show at the Myer music bowl and play a selection of Weezer favourites. We also have plenty of other fine music including some 90’s favourites. There’s also plenty of movies to talk about with Hitchcock the biopic of the suspense master and supernatural fun with Paranorman. Don’t forget our
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 11th JANUARY 2013 1. JERRY LEE LEWIS & JIMI PAGE – Rock’n’roll. 2. DAVID BOWIE – Let’s spend the night together. 3. THE NERVES – Hanging on the telephone. 4. ZEKE – Rhiannon. 5. JELLYFISH – No matter what. 6. THE SAINTS – Lipstick on your collar. (Aus) 7. ROB CRAW – Am I ever gonna
Read moreShifting awkwardly from solid crime-busting drama to cartoonish, ultra-violent action film, Gangster Squad doesn’t know if it wants to be The Untouchables or Dick Tracy. Allegedly based on fact, the film depicts the nefarious empire of gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) a vicious New York hood and former boxer who, in the late 40’s, set up his own chapter of
Read moreAs a 3d animated film about a bullied kid combating creatures rising from the grave, Paranorman is like a less gothic cousin to Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) is an introverted kid who, like Hayley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, sees dead people. His abilities make him an outcast at home and at school but also
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