Director M. Night Shyamalan made his name with twist-laden Twilight Zone-esque supernatural thrillers such as the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. These cleverly constructed and visually distinctive films saw him labelled a wunderkind and for a while each new film was greeted with enormous expectation. Unfortunately, his films became progressively worse with thin plots leading to increasingly implausible or anti-climactic twists…and
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 24th February 2017 CAVES – Wu J. TYRANNAMEN – I can’t read your mind. (Aus) TV HAZE – Dean’s diner. (Aus) TEENAGE FAN CLUB – Thin air. RYAN ADAMS – Do you still love me. MIDNIGHT OIL – Scream in blue. (Aus) SPIDERBAIT – When fusion ruled the earth. (Aus) THE DESCENDENTS – Victim of me.
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 17th February 2017 THE ROLLING STONES – Blue and lonesome. FRONT END LOADER – Pulse. (Aus) H-BLOCK 101 – Kokakolonization. (Aus) STARKY – City Prison Doors. (Aus) PIXIES- Hey. RYAN ADAMS – To be young. BLONDIE – Union City Blues. AVI BUFFALO – Remember the last time. MIKAL CRONIN – I’m done running from you. CALEXICO
Read moreThis Friday ‘Built For Speed’ speaks to Philippe Platel, Artistic Director of one of Melbourne’s finest annual cultural events the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival which runs from 8th to 30th March. We’ll also take a look at the long-awaited sequel to ‘Trainspotting’, the oddly-named ‘T2: Trainspotting’ and Martin Scorsese’s religious epic ‘Silence’. There’s plenty of fine music with indie
Read moreIntertwining a civil rights story with the early 1960’s space race, Hidden Figures might at first glance seem like a hybrid of The Help and Apollo 13 and while it’s at times formulaic and set within a sunny 1960s milieu worthy of Ron Howard, it contains an important and uplifting story. Based on actual events, Hidden Figures traces the careers of
Read moreGerman writer/ director Maren Ade’s long and very quirky tragi-comedy Toni Erdmann carefully negotiates the line between pathos and farce for one of the more unusual but affecting films so far this year. The title character (Peter Simonischek) is a hulking dishevelled man in his 60’s whose life appears to revolve around playing weird Andy Kaufman-style practical jokes on people.
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