The Dark Knight Rises is the most anticipated non-Hobbit film of the year, its predecessor The Dark Knight was a box office behemoth and showed that a superhero film could pile on the action and effects and still display some brains. It’s a credit to Nolan that in all the Dark Knight films, he’s able to turn a pretty silly
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 27TH JULY 2012 IGGY & THE STOOGES – Shake appeal. DEEP PURPLE – Highway star. DEEP PURPLE – Black Knight. DEEP PURPLE – Fireball. DEEP PURPLE – Space truckin’. ALICE COOPER – No more Mr Nice Guy. ALEXANDER EBERT – True. IMELDA MAY – Sneaky Freak. THE CULT – Life_Death. MEGAN WASHINGTON – Navy blues.(Aus) ROYAL
Read moreThis week Built For Speed put in their 10c worth on the year’s most anticipated non-Hobbit film, The Dark Knight. We also review Rolf De Heer’s latest film, nightmare neighbour flick The King is Dead. There’s plenty of fine music from Aus and abroad including Royal Headache, Washington and a tribute to Deep Purple’s key board maestro, the late Jon Lord. There’s also
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 20TH JULY 2012 1. AGAINST ME – White people for peace. 2. THE MEN – Turn it around 3. THE LAURELS – One step forward two steps back. (Aus) 4. HOWLER – Back of your neck.(Aus) 5. GLEN CAMPBELL – Wichita Lineman 6. AEROSMITH – The other side. 7. CHEAP TRICK – Surrender. 8. REM –
Read moreThe Amazing Spiderman is a reboot of the web-slinger franchise rather than a fourth Toby Maguire / Kirsten Dunst film and while it delves a little further into Peter Parker’s back story there’s not a lot distinguishing this from the earlier films. Andrew Garfield stars as Spidey/ Peter Parker a kid genius who lusts after classmate Gwen (Not Mary Jane)
Read moreHysteria is, believe it or not, a romantic comedy about the development of the vibrator in Victorian England and it may turn out to be one of the funniest films of the year. Set in the late 1880’s, a time of social and intellectual upheaval, the film fictionalises the creation of the sex aid as a treatment for the condition
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