Looper is a strange, inventive but ultimately underwhelming mix of Terminator, Blade Runner and Die Hard. Looper posits the idea that about 60 years from now we will have discovered time travel but because of its inherent dangers, it will have been banned. The only people who will use it will be criminal organisations who, because of bio tracking techniques,
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we have plenty of great new music from Green day and Red Kross as well as classic power pop from Australia and overseas including The Innocents, The Records and The Numbers. We also take a look at two new cinema releases that play havoc with time and space Looper and Ruby Sparks. Don’t forget our regular
Read moreLore is an Australian-German co-production directed by Cate Shortland who burst onto the scene in 2004 with her debut feature Somersault. Shot in Germany and spoken almost entirely in German, Lore is based on one of the stories from the Rachel Seiffert novel The Dark Room. The film is set in Germany in 1945 just as the Nazi regime is
Read moreThrough the adventures of would be writer Sal paradise and his crazed buddy Dean Moriarty, Jack Kerouac’s largely autobiographical 1957 novel On the Road attempted to articulate the restlessness of intellectually ambitious but disillusioned post-war American youth. The film adaptation by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) turns the story into a weird bromance as Sal (Sam Riley) and Dean (Garrett Hedlund)
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we return to more art house fare with reviews of Cate Shortland’s World War 2 drama “Lore” and the long awaited adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic “On the Road” which stars Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley. There’s also plenty of new music from The Vaccines, Jeff the Brotherhood and Alabama Shakes.
Read moreThe DreamWorks animated films haven’t quite earned the critical plaudits of the Pixar masterpieces but they have chalked up sufficiently good box-office to spawn a few sequels and now we have one of their most successful franchises, Madagascar, back for a third helping. This time that lovable quartet of oddly non-aggressive zoo creatures: Alex the lion voiced by Ben Stiller,
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