Some films arrive with such bad word of mouth it’s hard not to have a negative opinion of them before they’ve even screened. RIPD has been preceded by so many scathing reviews we would have been forgiven for thinking it was a snuff movie. While this clumsy, garish, depressingly derivative fusion of Men In Black, Ghostbusters and supernatural weepie Ghost
Read moreIt’s classic album time once again and this week Built For Speed celebrates 20 years since the release of Suede’s sensational self-titled debut by playing a few choice tracks from that highly influential record. There’s also plenty of new Aussie and overseas music. In our film review section we take a look at two movies that couldn’t be more different: Channing Tatum
Read moreJust in time for the school holidays, The Wizard of Oz, the beloved Hollywood fairy-tale and original James Franco-free Oz movie is being re-released in 3D. For those few remaining people who are unaware of The Wizard of Oz, the film, originally released in 1939, is based on one of the many the L. Frank Baum novels concerning the mystical
Read moreThe Shin Bet is the Israeli internal security service which, since its inception in 1948 has been primarily responsible for counter-terrorism and covert operations within Israel and Palestine. The documentary, The Gatekeepers, features the men who led the agency for various periods during the last 30 years and represents the first time Shin Bet leaders have spoken publicly about their
Read moreIn a plot line suspiciously reminiscent of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, director Robert Luketic’s tepid corporate espionage thriller Paranoia sees another smart, ambitious young guy, who is desperate to escape his working class background, wind up seduced and manipulated by a corporate Satan. Liam Hemsworth plays Adam Cassidy, a lowly software engineer who mistakenly thinks he has the technological ideas
Read moreIs Jobs, the biopic of Apple founder the late Steve Jobs, a gratuitous corporate sell or an insightful critique of a complex and highly influential person? Actually, it’s a bit of both. Like David Fincher’s The Social Network, the film traces the ambitions, personal traumas and career trajectory of a brilliant but difficult computing pioneer. Jobs, however, is nowhere near
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