It’s Good Friday and what better way to spend it than listening to ‘Built For Speed’. This week we take a look at animated comedy Zootopia and gun totin’ action fantasy London Has Fallen. There’s also plenty of fine music from Australia and abroad including our continuing series chronicling the best songs of the millennia so far. Don’t forget our
Read moreWith its distinctive aesthetic style, The Witch: A New England Folktale is one of the more striking looking horror films of recent times. A patchy script, however, may leave eager horror fans dissatisfied. The story sees a family of 17th century pilgrims in New England banished to the wilderness when their overly pious father William (Ralph Ineson) angers the local
Read moreDisney’s Zootopia is one of the best animated films of recent years. Other recent films in this genre have contained sparkling photo-realistic animation, a few clever gags and some endearing characters but Zootopia has all these qualities combined with a clever film noir-like detective plot and a variety of thoughtful and positive messages. Zootopia is set in an imaginary world
Read moreAlthough it boasts the novelty of having been shot in one continuous take, low-budget German movie Victoria thankfully manages to be a complete film rather than an indulgent experiment. With its unusual ebb and flow of tension and manic action, Victoria intrigues, unnerves and excites in equal measure. The title character (Laia Costa) is a young Spanish woman who lives
Read moreThe question has plagued the internet for months, is 10 Cloverfield Lane a sequel to JJ Abrams’ breakthrough 2008 movie Cloverfield? With a marketing campaign offering tantalising snippets of footage, the film has already had movie fans salivating with expectation. This film is a minefield of spoilers so to reveal too much about the plot would be unfair. This does,
Read moreAerial skiing is one of those sports where many watch with their heart in their mouth expecting the competitor to land in a horrible mangled heap. As the film The Will To Fly reveals, these fears are justified as hideous accidents happen all too frequently. The film documents the career of Australian aerial skiing champion Lydia Lassila as she battles
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