Lore 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,
Read moreThat definitive shark movie Jaws invoked Melville’s Moby Dick in its tale of man’s quest to conquer nature. Bait has no such lofty ambitions instead it takes the Dawn of the Dead scenario of people fighting for survival in a supermarket, removes the social commentary about consumerism and adds sharks. The result is a silly, gory, horror comedy that probably
Read moreThe Diary of a Wimpy Kid films aren’t the most important literary adaptations of recent times but their popularity is undeniable with the first two films generating a tidy $100 mill in pre-tween bucks. The third film Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days sees the eponymous wimp Greg Scheffer (Zach Gordon) trying to deal with the dilemma of
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