Footballer Adam Goodes’ story has been both a saddening and inspiring one and this week on ‘Built For Speed’ we review Stan Grant’s documentary about Adam Goodes’ experiences ‘The Australian Dream’. We’ll also take a look at ‘Hereditary’ director Ari Aster’s latest creepy thriller ‘Midsommar’. There’s also a feast of fine music with new Aussie tracks, indie rock favourites and
Read moreAcross eight films (if we call Kill Bill one film) Quentin Tarantino has cultivated a reputation as a modern movie savant and a ravenous cinephile who has been handed the greatest toy imaginable, a Hollywood movie budget. With this he’s conjured lurid comic book crime dramas and off-kilter genres movies all filtered through his universe of pop cultural obsessions. After
Read moreIn 1969, amid the turbulence of the Vietnam War, civil unrest and the Nixon administration, the Woodstock concert emerged as a beacon of hope. This week marks 50 years since what is arguably the most iconic concert in rock history and ‘Built For Speed’ pays tribute to that amazing event by featuring many of the artists who appeared on the
Read moreFor the first 15 minutes, Kriv Stenders’ Vietnam war drama Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan seems like a clunky attempt at an Aussie Platoon. We’re introduced to some painfully familiar characters: the intense, bullying veteran soldier, the wide-eyed innocent young grunts, the cocky guys playing cards and guzzling whisky and the pompous, uncaring commanding officer. Quickly, though, this
Read moreThe world of late-night TV talk shows has provided fruitful material for ‘behind the scenes’ satires and exposés with comedy classics like The Larry Sanders Show and tele-movies such as The Late Shift. Hosting a talk show appears to be an odd mix of empathy and narcissism in which the host is often a bigger star than the person they’re
Read moreBe Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache is the remarkable story of French/ Chilean and later American, Alice Guy Blache, possibly the first female film director, producer and film company owner. She was there at cinema’s conception in 1895 with the Lumiere Brothers and Thomas Edison and according to this documentary was more prolific than all of them.
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