BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 1st MARCH 2013 1. KING TUFF – Bad thing. 2. THE GRATES – Lies are much more fun. (Aus) 3. THE PICTURES – See you home tonight. (Aus) 4. BILL WYMAN – Je suis un rock star. 5. THE LIARBIRDS – The Growl (Aus) 6. LOON LAKE – Cherry lips. (Aus) 7. THE MODELS – Barbados.(Aus)
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Read moreThe Last Stand Having ditched politics (at least officially), Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to what he does best, ludicrous, NRA-approved, gun-worshipping action movies. In The Last Stand he’s back playing a noble, heroic, skull-stomping, right-wing authority figure blowing away those evil non-Americans. He’s Sheriff Ray Owens who presides over the Arizona back blocks town of Somerton. Police work in Somerton usually
Read moreClearly encouraged by the phenomenal success of the Twilight series, writer director Richard La Grevanese tries to capture that lucrative mix of teen romance and supernatural horror in his adaptation of Kami Garcia’s novel Beautiful Creatures. For some this will be a daunting prospect as the Twilight films weren’t exactly artistic triumphs. Thankfully, Beautiful Creatures undercuts the typical tedious po-faced
Read moreCirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3d brings the famed Canadian theatre circus to the cinema screen. The film comprises a selection of segments from their various live shows which are loosely connected by the romantic story of a young woman (the pixie-like Erica Linz) entering a circus fantasy world to search for a bare-chested muscleman acrobat (Igor Zaripov). The story
Read moreMichael Hanneke’s Amour is a grim Bergmanesque story of two elderly people confronting mortality, human frailty and agonising moral choices. Emmanuel Riva and Jean Louis Trintignant play Anna and Georges an older Parisienne couple seemingly enjoying a life of financially secure retirement. When Anna begins to exhibit odd behaviour it becomes apparent she has had a stroke. As her condition
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