This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at futuristic robot adventure ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ and Laurel and Hardy biopic ‘Stan and Ollie’ which stars Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. We’ll also tell you all about the huge Arctic Monkeys gig at Rod Laver Arena this week and play some favourites featured in the show. There’s also have
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two slightly different films: Oscar-nominated drama ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ and post-apocalyptic robot adventure ‘Alita: Battle Angel’. We also have many fine tunes for you with new Aussie tracks, indie rock favourites and classics rock from across the decades. Don’t forget our comprehensive wrap-up of music news, gigs
Read more‘Built For Speed’ is back for 2019 and this week we have a packed show for you as we catch up with some of the big films released over the Christmas period including ‘Aquaman’ and ‘The Favourite’. We’ll also tell you about the Interpol gig at the Palais last Friday. There’ll be plenty of fine tunes including some Interpol faves,
Read moreConceptually inventive but poorly executed, the clunky, ridiculous post-apocalyptic steam-punk, sci-fi adventure Mortal Engines is one of the least convincing sci-fi epics of recent years. The film, which is based on Phillip Reeve’s popular novels, is set in a post-nuclear holocaust future where Earth’s surface has been bombarded by a doomsday weapon and turned into a scarred semi-desert. While some
Read moreDirector Steve McQueen has distinguished himself with confronting and intelligent films that, while not highly experimental, avoid many of current cinema’s clichés. He impresses once again with a contemporary US adaptation – co-written by Gone Girl novelist Gillian Flynn – of Lynda la Plante’s 1980’s British crime drama Widows. Leading a superb cast, Viola Davis plays Veronica, the wife of
Read moreRight-wing revenge fantasy Peppermint is one of the biggest dogs of the year. This vile fascist garbage oddly combines Death Wish, a midday movie-style female empowerment yarn and an 80’s video nasty. Why Jennifer Garner chose to slum it in a film like this is mind-boggling but here she plays soccer mom Riley North who turns vigilante when a drug
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