This week on ‘Built For Speed’ there’s a feast of fine music new and old with the latest releases from the likes of Weyes Blood, Green Day and Sheer Mag as well as classics from the Stones, Zeppelin and many others. On the movie front we take a look at sci-fi thriller Morgan. Don’t forget our regular preview of gigs and
Read moreDeepwater Horizon is an old fashioned disaster movie and while occasionally cornball, it’s a pretty effective one. The film dramatises actual events that occurred in 2010 when an oil exploration rig named Deepwater Horizon experienced a massive explosion and fire that resulted in the deaths of 11 men. At the centre of the drama are chief electronics officer Mike Williams
Read moreCorporate drama Equity tries to be many things: a personal story about a merchant banker (Anna Gunn) trying pull off a major deal while coping with a past failure, an expose on the inequitable treatment of women in the business world and an insider trading drama. Consequently, the film hops from one story thread to another like an episode of
Read moreThe original Magnificent Seven is a Hollywood classic which transposed Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai to the wild west of America; Seven Samurai having itself been inspired by Hollywood westerns. Now director Anton Fuqua has remade The Magnificent Seven with a cast that includes Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaard. Given the dire record of classic
Read moreSet in the 1920’s JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a prequel (of sorts) to the phenomenally successful Harry Potter films. Prequels to blockbuster film franchises have a dubious history, the horrible Star Wars prequels and erratic Hobbit films being an example. One of the problems is that the prequels are tantalisingly close but just out
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we review two films that couldn’t be more different, the new JK Rowling adventure Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Ken Loach’s confronting social realist drama I, Daniel Blake. There’s plenty of fine tunes with more favourite tracks of the millennium, new releases from Australia and overseas including the latest from Methyl
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