Seven Psychopaths is the latest film from In Bruges writer/ director Martin McDonagh. While In Bruges was a wonderfully melancholic crime drama with a sly sense of humour, Seven Psychopaths is a more bizarre beast as it both indulges and parodies the clichés of violent gangster and serial killer movies. In this film Colin Farrell plays Marty a struggling alcoholic
Read moreThis Saturday is the 70th birthday of one of the all-time great film directors Martin Scorsese. This week on Built For Speed we look back at our favourite Scorsese films and the ones that didn’t quite cut it. We also review Oscar-buzz, feel-good flick The Sessions and bizarro blood-fest Seven Psychopaths. There’s also plenty of fine music including a selection of
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 11th NOVEMBER 2012 1. ALICE COOPER – Elected. 2. JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION – Danger. 3. ONEIDA – I will haunt you. 4. ICE CREAM HANDS – The way she drives.(Aus) 5. SIMPLE MINDS – Speed your love to me. 6. B.A.D. – Bottom line. 7. WEEZER – Island in the sun. 8. IGGY AND THE
Read moreBridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits. Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing. Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful
Read moreBridesmaids showed that films about women behaving badly at weddings could be critical and box office hits. Bridesmaids was funny and in your face but also genuinely moving as it explored the way the supposedly joyous occasion of a wedding elicited people’s anxieties, disappointments and self-loathing. Bachelorette tries to tap into the same world of ballsy female bonding and painful
Read moreDredd 3D is a right-wing action fantasy set in a depressing future in which police have become judge, jury and very willing executioner. The film is set in a grim post-apocalyptic future in which cities gave been replaced by hideously polluted, overcrowded and crime-riddled mega cities. Apparently the only way to improve living standards in this dysfunctional world is to
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