With films like Cabin In the Woods pulling apart horror movie tropes and the Scary Movie series lampooning the genre outright, it’s a much more difficult task for a filmmaker to scare audiences these days than it was in the past. It’s a credit to James Wan, the director of the new supernatural horror movie The Conjuring, that, for at
Read moreScience fiction literature is full of stories about mad professors conducting hideously unethical gene- splicing experiments to create hybrid monsters. A similar process seems to have gone into the making of comedy The Heat where the crazy scientists have spliced Miss Congeniality with Identity Thief. The result is, despite the best efforts of the cast, a fumbling and unfunny variation
Read moreIn our “What’s on Built For Speed” for Friday 19th July 2013 we said that we would be interviewing Billy Pinnell. We wish to correct that statement as that interview has not been arranged as yet.
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we are ecstatic to have as our special guest a legend of the Australian music scene Billy Pinnell. We’ll discuss Billy’s long and illustrious radio career, his favourite music and much more. We also take a look at two new release films, giant robot adventure Pacific Rim and buddy cop comedy The Heat starring
Read moreOnly if you mated a Great Dane with a Blue Whale could you create a bigger dog than Pacific Rim. What could have been an exciting high-tech twist on global apocalypse films and old-school, Japanese-style monster movies turns out to be a moronic, clichéd, emotionally empty dud. Not only is this film dumb, devoid of tension and visually incoherent, it
Read moreIn the 1990’s, comedy/dramas about the lure of celebrity and the superficiality of reality TV were a potent commentary on society’s spiritual emptiness. Fast forward two decades, however, and reality TV as a source of satire and social comment has become passé. Consequently, Italian Big Brother satire Reality feels, despite the excellent craftsmanship of Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone, strangely outdated.
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