Built For Speed – Playlist – Friday 18th October 2013 KING TUFF – Bad thing. POND – Xanman. (Aus) SASKWATCH – I get lonely (Aus) THE TROTSKIES -Visa vision. (Aus) PEARL JAM – Getaway. THE ARCADE FIRE – Reflector. METALLICA – All nightmare long. MGMT – Congratulations. SUEDE – New generation. THE THE – This is the day. THE THE
Read moreIt’s classic album time once again and this week we take a more alternative route with Betty Serveert’s melodic and atmospheric 1996 record Dust Bunnies. We also play plenty of new music from Australia and overseas with tracks from Jeremy Neale, Best Coast and Bass Drum of Death. On the movie front we discuss Ridley Scott’s latest effort The Counselor
Read moreFly Me to the Moon has nothing to do with song popularised by Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, in fact that track never appears in the film. This is a quirky French rom-com which unfortunately emphasises the less appealing aspects of French comedies such as zany, manic behaviour and clichéd resolutions rather than the sharp wit, intellectual propositions and rich
Read moreFruitvale station, which won this year’s Best First Film prize at Cannes, represents a successful and very promising debut for director Ryan Coogler. Fruitvale Station dramatises the events surrounding the tragic death of 22 year-old African American man Oscar Grant (Michael B Jordan) on New Year’s Day 2009. While celebrating the New Year with friends, Oscar became involved in a
Read moreSome films look amazing on paper but suck on the big screen. The Counselor is one such film. Helmed by one of Hollywood’s most artistically inspired directors in Ridley Scott, scripted by one of the most acclaimed authors of the last 50 years in Cormac McCarthy and featuring a dream team cast of Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Cameron
Read moreThe Butler recounts the life-story of Cecil Gains (Forest Whitaker), a character based on a man named Eugene Allen, who worked as a White House butler from the late 1950’s until the late 1980’s. Cecil is not only a butler but occasional confidante to Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan; the film conspicuously leap-frogs over the Ford and Carter administrations.
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