Taika Waititi’s previous instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Ragnarök was, at least for a while, a strikingly odd experience and refreshingly different flavour in what had become the bland cinematic equivalent of a fast-food franchise. Suddenly, droll, pisstaking Kiwi humour had entered the overblown Wagnerian Marvel superhero fantasy universe. At first, it felt quite subversive but the film
Read moreThe seemingly endless Marvel movie parade careens ahead with the latest cgi-drenched action extravaganza, Dr Strange in The Multiverse of Madness. While as visually inventive and eyeball pummelling as any film in the various Marvel universes (MCU, Spiderverse) this movie seriously lacks the energy and fun of the best Marvel movies such as the recent Spider-Man No Way Home and
Read moreAdapted from a video game, the ridiculous sci-fi action flick Monster Hunter has nothing to do with the Norwegian mockumentary Troll Hunter. Many will be alarmed to learn it comes from director Paul W. S. Anderson who inflicted upon us the seemingly endless Resident Evil franchise. Despite a larger and slightly more interesting canvas of a desert planet and giant
Read moreChristopher Nolan’s new film ‘Tenet’ has been been dubiously touted as some sort of spectacular panacea for the lockdown malaise. Is it thrilling or is it another Nolan film that, like the miscast ‘Interstellar’, disappears down a rabbit hole? Find out this Friday on ‘Built For Speed’. When we’re not dissecting overlong sci-fi action films we’re playing lots of stunning
Read moreIn his tense, creepy, if at times predictable interpretation of HG Wells’ The Invisible Man, Aussie writer/ director Leigh Whannell has turned the story into family violence nightmare that echoes films like Sleeping With The Enemy and Gaslight. Elizabeth Moss plays Cecilia, the victim of controlling and manipulative husband, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who keeps her a virtual prisoner jn his
Read moreThis Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at Brad Pitt’s latest film, sci fi epic ‘Ad Astra’. We’ll also tell you about Jim Jarmusch’s contribution to the zombie film genre, ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ which stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Adam Driver and Tom Waits. There’ll be plenty of fine tunes with new Aussie indie rock, classic
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