A film that focuses on the period in which Mary Shelly wrote her sci-fi horror classic Frankenstein should be a thrilling prospect for anyone with a literary bent but director and co-writer Haifaa al-Mansour has transformed the biopic, Mary Shelley, into a slightly steamy, mildly gothic romance between two Derek Zoolander-approved really really good-looking people. Elle Fanning plays Mary Wollstonecraft
Read moreOn-screen text at the beginning of Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to the much lauded 2015 drug-crime drama Sicario, delivers what seems to be a disturbingly ‘conservative’ message about people smuggling across the Mexican-US border, much like the sort of statement we might expect from a certain oddly-coiffured world leader. It appears that this film may have shelved
Read moreThis Friday ‘Built For Speed’ reviews the hotly-anticipated sequel to 2015’s ‘Sicario’ with ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’. We also take a look at gothic romance and literary icons with ‘Mary Shelley’. There’s many fines tunes with new Aussie tracks, classics featuring legendary guitarists and drummers and an assortment of indie rock from across the decades. Don’t forget our regular preview
Read moreThere’s an important scene early in The Leisure Seeker in which retired English teacher John (Donald Sutherland) regales a perplexed fast food waitress about the simple poetic beauty of Ernest Hemmingway’s prose. The idea is that poetry can be found in the apparent banality of everyday events. While this middling meditation on ageing doesn’t fully capitalise on the potential of
Read moreAfter three Jurassic Park movies and one Jurassic World film we pretty much know what to expect: ravenous CGI dinosaurs chasing and chomping on humans. The fifth instalment in what is now a quarter century long franchise adds a couple of new wrinkles but mostly adheres to formula for an underwhelming movie experience. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the dinosaur-infested
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Greg King from 3WBC’s ‘Movies at Dusk’ and ‘Breakfast with the Motley Crew’ about his recent adventures in New York where he saw Bruce Springsteen’s acclaimed acoustic show at The Walter Kerr Theatre, ‘Springsteen on Broadway’. We’ll also take a look at two new-release Aussie movies, Cohen-esque thriller ‘Brother’s Nest’ and
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