With Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan eschews the traditional war movie narrative for a lyrical yet potently realistic depiction of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of France as German shells rained down. There’s no war-room strategy sessions, no soldiers talking about their best girl back home and no Rambo-like action sequences. Instead, Nolan recounts the
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at two of the big recent cinema releases, Second World War drama ‘Dunkirk’ and graphic novel-based action extravaganza ‘Atomic Blonde’. There’ll be plenty of great music with new Australian offerings, classics from across the decades and some of the terrific songs that appear on the ‘Atomic Blonde’ soundtrack. Don’t forget our regular
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Al Cossar, Programmer of the Melbourne International Film Festival about the amazing range of cinematic treats on offer this year. We also take a look at new releases ‘Baby Driver’ and the Radio Birdman documentary, ‘Descent Into the Maelstrom’. There’ll be plenty of great music with recent favourites from Wilco, Kings
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ passes its verdict on the latest cinematic Spiderman reboot with our review of ‘Spiderman: Homecoming’. We also take a look at psychological, post-apocalyptic horror in Joel Edgerton’s latest film ‘It comes at night’. On the music front there are plenty of fine tunes new and old from Australia and across the globe including, just for Bastille
Read moreThe film Churchill often feels as if director Johnathon Teplitzky and writer Alex von Tunzelmann have taken The King’s Speech and replaced King George the Sixth with Winston Churchill. Both films are about a British leader confronting self-doubt and the crushing responsibility to their people in the dark days of the Second World War. Churchill is not a comprehensive biopic
Read moreWe shouldn’t expect much from a Baywatch cinema adaptation and this film certainly lives down to expectations. Often the problem with movies based on TV shows is that the filmmakers try to stuff the TV show’s concept into a generic action comedy template and in the process lose the show’s essence and appeal. It’s the same deal here except that,
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