After a four year hiatus, Director Jim Jarmusch returns with his latest film Only Lovers Left Alive a typically quirky Jarmusch take on the much-abused vampire sub-genre. Slow moving and largely uneventful this droll mix of horror film, gothic romance and rock star biopic provides a perplexing, occasionally amusing but underwhelming experience. Thor’s Tom Hiddleston plays Adam an ancient yet ageless
Read moreThere’s a long weekend ahead and what better way to kick it off than listening to Built For Speed on 88.3 Southern FM. This week we feature an interview with Aaron Wilson the writer and director of new Australian war time drama Canopy. We also take a look at the latest film for indie darling Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left
Read moreClearly hoping to mine Gen-X nostalgia as well as the lucrative school holiday market, Disney gives us the latest adventure for Kermit and the Muppet gang in the star-packed but underwhelming Muppets Most Wanted. A familiar plot sees Kermit (voiced by Steve Whitmire) attempting to reassemble the team for a major tour of the classic Muppet theatre show. Lacking money
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist – Friday 4th April 2014 RADIO BIRDMAN – New Race. (Aus) JEREMY NEALE – In Stranger Times. (Aus) SUN GOD REPLICA – The devil and the deep. (Aus) LEANNE KINGWELL – Slingshot.(Aus) THE FRATELLIS – Chelsea Dagger. HOLE – Malibu. JACK WHITE – I’m Shaking. TEMPLES – Golden throne. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS –
Read moreHow many times have we heard the deep mellifluous burr of a movie trailer voice-over artist exclaiming “This year” or “In a world”? The owner of that voice was more likely than not American vocal legend Don La Fontaine who recorded thousands of voice-overs for film trailers and TV commercials before his death in 2008. The vacuum he left in
Read moreI haven’t seen Gareth Evans’ (the Welsh film director not the former Labor politician) first Raid film -a martial arts epic set in a Jakarta apartment building over-run by ferocious criminals – but as far as I’m aware it is not essential to have seen that film to follow the plot of the sequel The Raid 2: Berandal. The Raid
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