This Friday the 13th ‘Built For Speed’ reviews new slasher movie ‘Happy Death Day’. We’ll also talk about some of our all-time favourite horror films. There’ll be a feast of fine music as we play some appropriately spooky tunes as well new releases, favourites from Australia and overseas and a selection of tracks from that amazing period of British New Wave
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we give you the official word on whether the hotly anticipated Blade Runner sequel, ‘Blade Runner:2049’ is any good. We also head back in time to La Belle Époque and take a look at French biopic ‘The Dancer’. On the music front we pay tribute to one of rock’s greatest artists Tom Petty who
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at ‘Battle of the Sexes’ a dramatization of the famous 1973 tennis match between women’s champ Billy Jean King and self-proclaimed ‘tennis hustler’ Bobby Riggs. We’ll also review royal drama ‘Victoria and Abdul’ and on a slightly different note we’ll tell you about Terrence Malick’s latest film, cosmological documentary ‘Voyage of Time’.
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at topical drama ‘Australia Day’ starring Bryan Brown and Shari Shebbens. We also review environmental documentary ‘Blue’. There’ll also be many fine tunes with new releases, some brutal Aussie tracks and classics from across the decades. We’ll also have our selection of Wilco favourites delayed from last week. Don’t forget
Read moreAdapting the young adult, sci-fi/ fantasy, adventure novel to the screen is a tricky feat. If done right, as in the Harry Potter films, they can provide wonderful cinema. Too often, though, film-makers trying to adapt popular teen novels to the big screen fumble the task badly, exhibit A: The Mortal Instruments. It would be reasonable to expect that a
Read moreIn 2016, director Steven Soderbergh announced he was taking a break from filmmaking to concentrate on other projects. Thankfully, this intriguing, idiosyncratic auteur has returned to the big screen for the subdued but quirkily charming hillbilly heist comedy/ drama Logan Lucky. Set in an economically depressed part of West Virginia the film sees recently sacked construction worker and former high
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