This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ hops into the time machine and journeys back to an era of checked shirts, shaggy haircuts and excessive use of the word ‘angst’. Yes, it’s the 1990’s and this week we play favourite tracks and some obscurities from that remarkable decade. We’ll still keep you up do date with what’s happening in cinema with reviews
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we let you know whether the cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s graphic novel series ‘The Dark Tower’ is any good. We also take a look at Tom Cruise’ latest effort, the Iran-Contra drama ‘American Made’. There’s plenty of great music with new Aussie tracks, favourites from the early 2000’s and classics from across the decades.
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we talk to Mouna Zaylah, Co-Director of the Arab Film Festival about the wonderful range of films on offer from 25-27 August. We also take a look at Amazon adventure ‘The Lost City of Z’ starring ‘Sons of Anarchy’s’ Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson. On a slightly different note we’ll also review biopic Maudie which stars Sally
Read moreAtomic Blonde which features a pretty remarkable cast including Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella, John Goodman and Toby Jones is a slick, bone-crunching if occasionally slow adaptation of the first volume in the graphic novel series The Coldest City. Set in the volatile atmosphere of East Germany in the dying days of the Cold War in 1989, the film
Read moreSofia Coppola’s films are rarely plot driven, instead they focus on relationships, manners, gestures and as in The Bling Ring and The Virgin Suicides, female sub-cultures. Coppola’s remake of the 1970 Clint Eastwood film The Beguiled exemplifies these themes. Set in the deep south during the American Civil War as the confederate campaign began to collapse, the film sees wounded
Read morePost-apocalyptic survivalist thriller It Comes at Night is a stylish slow-burn film that delivers palpable tension and some effective scares but suffers due to its minimalist plot. Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo and Kelvin Harrison Jr play Paul, Sarah and Travis one of what seems to be few surviving families following an unnamed global catastrophe. Eking out a rugged existence
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