This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Sally Ingleton, the director of the new Australian documentary about environmental activism, ‘Wild Things’. We’ll also take a look at the much talked-about new drama ‘Promising Young Woman’ and family film ‘Elfkins: Baking a Difference’. There’ll also be plenty of fine music with the latest in indie rock and classic rock
Read moreNomadland depicts a largely unseen but apparently growing subculture, people who have forgone the dream of home ownership and suburban security to travel the country, working itinerantly and living in their vans. Written and directed by Chloe Zhao and based on Jessica’s Bruder’s book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, this wonderfully rugged, humane and moving film has rightly
Read moreNew Australian film The Dry, which is based on the Jane Harper novel and stars Eric Bana, explores some familiar Australian movie themes. There’s the prodigal son who, like Ben Mendelsohn in Beautiful Kate, returns to his small rural home town having left under controversial circumstances. Also, like Picnic at Hanging Rock, Jindabyne and Black Rock there’s a perplexing mystery
Read moreThis Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two of the big recent cinema releases: Wonder Woman: 1984 and Australian crime drama The Dry which stars Eric Bana. We’ll also have some more of the best tracks of 2020 as well as classic and indie rock favourites from across the decades. Don’t forget our round-up of TV
Read moreThe cinema has handled the topic of mental illness with vastly differing degrees of accuracy and sensitivity. Films like Silver Linings Playbook have intelligently captured the complexities of mental illness and the way in which it impacts on sufferer’s loved ones while movies like Split have alarmingly equated mental illness with something monstrous. Words on Bathroom Walls, which stars Lean
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