This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at one of the highlights of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, the western ‘The Sisters Brothers’ from ‘A Prophet’ director Jacques Audiard. Also, our theatre correspondent CJ will tell us about the musical production of ‘Muriel’s Wedding’. We’ll also provide a wrap-up of film’s currently screening on our cinemas.
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the much anticipated collaboration between Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and Spanish cinema superstars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in kidnap drama ‘Everybody Knows’. We’ll also review British family drama ‘Sometimes Always Never’ which stars Bill Nighy. There’ll also be plenty of fine music with new Aussie releases, indie
Read moreArriving fairly late in the all-consuming Marvel movie franchise is Captain Marvel an origin story not only for the title character but for a couple of Marvel Comics Universe characters and in some ways a prequel to a few of the Marvel films. While this movie provides occasional amusement, moments of impressive spectacle and excitement and finally a female lead,
Read moreThe vaguely titled Ben Is Back follows on from last year’s Beautiful Boy in examining the impact on families of a son’s drug addiction. While the film addresses an important topic and contains some poignant moments, it doesn’t have quite the impact it should as it plays like a more intense midday movie. Lucas Hedges (who was terrific in Boy
Read moreAt Eternity’s Gate dramatises the last years of Vincent Van Gogh’s life. The film, directed by Basquiat’s Julian Schnabel and starring Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh, sees the artist living in poverty and tortured by mental illness in the French provincial town of Arles in the late 1880’s. Despite his desperate circumstances he produces astonishing work but his fractured mental
Read moreThis Friday is International Women’s Day and ‘Built For Speed’ will play a selection of our favourite tunes from female artists including Liz Phair, Courtney Barnett and Patti Smith. We’ll also review two films with two remarkable women we never would have thought would appear in the same sentence: Maria Callas (in ‘Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words’) and
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