Seven 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
Read moreAfter the wonderful nostalgic fantasy Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s European tour hits a major pothole with the uninspired To Rome with love. This frothy, feather-light film features mostly unsympathetic characters in the midst of mild romantic dilemmas that are rarely interesting or funny. The film has four main story threads all of which examine the strange corrupting lure of
Read moreOliver Stone’s latest film Savages follows in the tradition of Scarface and Blow by using the drug industry as a metaphor for America’s aspirational culture. Unfortunately this film has neither the originality nor the charismatic central characters of those films. Taylor kitsch and Aaron Johnson play two low profile but highly successful California marijuana dealers who live in an unusual
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