Alex Cross, the character originally played by Morgan Freeman in Kiss The Girls (1997) and Along Came A Spider (2001) now appears in a self-titled film starring Tyler Perry who’s best known at least in the US for his feisty drag character Madea. This film arrived with dire warnings that it was one of the turkeys of the year and
Read moreThe Sessions is the moving, funny and true story of Mark O’ Brien a writer afflicted with polio who at the age of 38 decides that he wants to have sex. Although unable to voluntarily move anything below his neck he still has bodily sensation and the ability to get an erection. Given the fact that he has to spend
Read moreSeven Psychopaths is the latest film from In Bruges writer/ director Martin McDonagh. While In Bruges was a wonderfully melancholic crime drama with a sly sense of humour, Seven Psychopaths is a more bizarre beast as it both indulges and parodies the clichés of violent gangster and serial killer movies. In this film Colin Farrell plays Marty a struggling alcoholic
Read moreThis Saturday is the 70th birthday of one of the all-time great film directors Martin Scorsese. This week on Built For Speed we look back at our favourite Scorsese films and the ones that didn’t quite cut it. We also review Oscar-buzz, feel-good flick The Sessions and bizarro blood-fest Seven Psychopaths. There’s also plenty of fine music including a selection of
Read moreBridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits. Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing. Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful
Read moreBridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits. Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing. Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful
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