Johnny Depp loves playing eccentric, campily-attired, strangely-voiced characters, particularly when he collaborates with director Tim Burton. He’s delivered bizarre performances of varying quality in Burton flicks such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and most memorably in the biopic of Plan 9 from Outer Space director Ed Wood. Playing an 18th century gentleman vampire reawakened in the early
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, MAY 25TH 2012 1. DEVIN – Masochist. 2. THE BEE GEES – You should be dancing.(Aus) 3. STREAMERS – Umpire. (Aus) 4. BRITISH INDIA – Vanilla. (Aus) 5. THE VINES – Get free. (Aus) 6. THE ROLLING STONES – It’s only rock’n’roll. 7. THE LIVING END – Long live the weekend. (Aus) 8. ALICE COOPER –
Read moreComing up on Built For Speed over the next few weeks we’ll review blockbuster comedies Dark Shadows and The Dictator as well as all the latest art-house releases. We’ll revisit classic albums including two 40 year olds: David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Neil Young’s Harvest. We’ll also have all the latest entertainent
Read moreThis week on Built for Speed we play new music from Alabama Shakes, Devin and many others. We also focus on 70’s power pop with bands like the Raspberries and Big Star. There’s also plenty of films to talk about including new Jason Statham shoot ’em up Safe and believe it or not, nazis on the moon in Iron Sky.
Read moreWish You Were Here is a new Australian mystery thriller that has nothing to do with the classic Pink Floyd album of the same name. Being a contemporary Australian film it of course stars Joel Edgerton as a stressed bogan family man and has a fragmented narrative structure. The film jumps back and forth through time, feeding the audience slivers
Read moreThere have been plenty of films about US Special Forces battling terrorists and drug lords and most of these have involved outrageous, cartoonish propaganda, racially stereotyped bad guys, simplistic, biased notions of world conflict and Chuck Norris. Acts of Valour has all these things, minus the Chuck Norris. For many critics this film is an abomination but it’s not designed
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