This week on Built For Speed we step away from the art house reviews and provide our consumer guide to the school holiday movies: Madagascar 3, Diary of a wimpy kid and (for gore loving teens) Bait 3D. It’s also time for a Built For Speed classic album and this month it’s Neil Young’s 1970 masterpiece After the Goldrush. There’s
Read moreHit and Run is a middling crime comedy that often plays like Tarantino-lite. In an in advisable piece of multi-tasking Dax Shepard (from TV’s Parenthood) writes, co-directs and stars in this film. While there are amusing, exciting and even insightful moments, a different set of eyes may have helped him avoid some of this film’s flat spots and half-baked gags.
Read moreHoly Motors is one of those films where you will constantly ask “what the hell is going on?”. This French film features a gurning, sinewy Gollum man who initially appears to be a wealthy businessman but who cruises around in a stretch limo putting on weird disguises and engaging in bizarre, sometimes violent acts. At one point he’s a crippled
Read moreA film about a quirky Irishman putting together a group to perform classic 60’s soul music, no it’s not The Commitments it’s The Sapphires. This film is based on real events and tells the story of four young Aboriginal women, who in 1968 are lured by their manager (Chris O’Dowd) to perform as a Supremes style act for the troops
Read moreFollowing It’s Complicated, Hope Springs is Meryl Streep’s second rom com recently that centres on a broken marriage. While it has its pedestrian moments, Hope Springs, is thankfully darker and funnier than It’s Complicated. Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple whose relationship is on life support. Any romantic spark seems to have been snuffed out by their
Read moreWe all know the drill with the Bourne films: frenetic chases and elaborate, utterly implausible action allwrapped in a thin veil of grim, LeCaresque intrigue. The latest addition to the franchise, The Bourne Legacy sticks to the formula but not before a ponderous prologue full of confusing waffle about Treadstone, Black friars, Larx and biochemical experiments. Eventually it emerges that
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