This week on “Built For Speed” we speak to Elysia Zeccola-Hill, the Director of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival which runs (in Melbourne) from 17th Sept – 12th Oct. She will tell us all about the wonderfully diverse program of films on offer at the festival. On a slightly different note we’ll also review the movie reboot of the Teenage Mutant
Read moreMagic in the Moonlight, the latest film from Woody Allen, is an engaging light-weight rom-com that explores familiar Woody Allen themes of existential angst, the search for life’s meaning and the curative power of fantasy and romance. Set in 1928, the film stars Colin Firth as misanthropic stage magician, self-proclaimed intellectual and avowed sceptic, Stanley who has earned acclaim for
Read moreThe genesis of Predestination seems to have been a competition to come up with the most brain-twisting time travel story imaginable. Never has a film folded in on itself quite like Predestination. Based on the Robert Heinlein short story All You Zombies and touching on other time travel and sci-fi films such as Looper, Time Cop and Minority Report, Predestination
Read moreNo one does intense, depressing existential crime dramas quite like the Scandinavians. Through movies like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and TV shows like The Killing and The Bridge they have forged a dark new sub-genre termed Scandi-noir. Fans of this sub-genre, will no doubt be salivating over the prospect of seeing the latest disturbing Danish thriller, The Keeper
Read moreFrench director Luc Besson’s energetic, ballsy but occasionally crass and simple-minded action thrillers have left him almost as divisive a figure as Michael Bay. His latest movie Lucy, which stars Scarlett Johansson, will no doubt provoke vitriolic responses from both supporters and detractors. Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy, an innocent American student living in Taipei who has somehow hooked up with
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we look at two of the more unusual films to emerge this year: Richard Linklater’s epic family drama Boyhood and the extremely confronting German film Wetlands. It’s also classic album time and for September we go back to 1971 for David Bowie’s fourth album Hunky Dory. There’s also plenty of new music from Australia and
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