This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two animal-related films, the latest cinema incarnation of the vet who talks to animals in ‘Dolittle’ and a documentary about the fight to maintain a fully organic environmentally friendly farm in ‘The biggest little farm’. There’ll be plenty of fine music with more favourites from 2019, new Aussie tracks
Read moreTwo decades ago, Guy Ritchie’s quirky, cartoonish but violent British gangster films such as Lock Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels and Snatch were the cinema equivalent of Britpop to Tarantino’s grunge. Featuring a colourful rogues’ gallery of geezers, hard men and con artists tangled up in convoluted scams, Ritchie’s films were ridiculous froth but still fun. In recent years his
Read moreSam Mendes’ intense, gruelling World War One drama 1917 is, despite a few contrived moments, one of the most impressively confronting movies of the year. The film draws on classic war dramas such as Saving Private Ryan and Gallipoli as well as the ancient Greek legend of Pheidippides who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens during Greece’s war
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at Golden Globe winner and Oscar hopeful, WW1 drama ‘1917’. We’ll also explore the Oscar nominees list to see which other films are in contention. We also let you know if Guy Ritchie has atoned for his recent disappointing films with his latest effort ‘The Gentlemen’. There’ll be plenty of magnificent
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look the much lauded French film ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’. We’ll also let you know about the latest IMAX offering ‘Great Bear Rainforest’. There’s also plenty of fine music with new Aussie tunes, indie and classic rock favourites and a selection of magnificent tracks celebrating their 40th anniversary. Don’t
Read moreLittle Women, directed by Greta Gerwig, is the seventh cinema adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s bestselling semi-autobiographical 1868 novel; the first film version having appeared in 1917. Gerwig’s adaptation, like Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 version, intelligently combines historical fiction, romance, comedy, tragedy and feminism for a very pleasing, if at times slow-moving film. Little Women tells the story of the March
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