The Academy Awards screen this Sunday and Built For Speed will give their predictions for winners in all the major categories. We’ll also take a look at some new cinema releases including the violent adaptation of 70’s Brit cop show The Sweeney and the astonishing documentary West of Memphis. There’s also plenty of new music with Abbe May, The Bronx
Read moreAdapting a popular TV show to the big screen is always a tricky business. How do you make that transition to a different medium and still maintain the show’s magic? Do you just reproduce the show in a bigger more spectacular form, do you opt for the Brady Bunch style affectionate pastiche or do you try to reinvent it like
Read moreWest of Memphis is a powerful and sometimes infuriating documentary that describes the events surrounding the plight of the so-called West Memphis Three. On May 6th 1993 the bound bodies of three eight year old boys: Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steven Branch were pulled from a creek in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Local teenagers Damien Echols, Jason
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 8th FEBRUARY 2013 1. TINY MIGRANTS – A Public Execution. (Aus) 2. CUSTOM KINGS – Sunday. (Aus) 3. LITTLE BIRDY – Run run run. (Aus) 4. TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. 5. THE STRAIGHT ARROWS – Lies. (Aus) 6. GARY CLARK JR – Bright lights. 7. TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – Scissor people. 8.
Read moreMovie 43 raises two important questions, why are there so many big stars in this dog of a film and why the hell was it made in the first place? This alleged comedy unbelievably represents the collaboration of multiple directors led by Peter Farrelly and a huge roster of name actors including Richard Gere, Hugh Hackman, Naomi Watts and Halle
Read moreAbraham Lincoln is such a towering and mythic figure in American history it seemed inevitable that American cinema’s great story teller Steven Spielberg would make a film about him. Lincoln is not, however, the emotionally manipulative epic we might have expected from Spielberg, instead it’s a dour, low-key and thoughtful look at an introspective and conflicted man. Like the Hitchcock
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