Greenberg and Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach’s latest film While We’re Young is an insightful, sporadically funny comedy/drama about artistic integrity, the disappointments of middle age and the cultural clash between Generations X and Y. Oddly this film has been sold as a light relationship comedy but it’s a more substantial film than that. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star
Read moreDespite the fact that The Gunman is set amid the tragic turmoil of the war in the Congo and the fact that it stars and was co-written by noted Hollywood activist Sean Penn, this film is not an exceptionally political film. What appears in the first few minutes to be a Syriana-style exploration of third world political corruption and the
Read moreCombining supernatural scares with a touch of the dark, hypnotic mood of Jonathon Glazer’s Under The Skin, the sinister melancholia of Let The Right One In, the grim suburbia of John Carpenter’s Halloween and the sexualised teen world of Larry Clark’s films, the creepy, atmospheric It Follows manages to connect low budget art house cinema with classic teen horror. Impressively,
Read moreThe Fast and the Furious films have always been ludicrous but the latest instalment Furious 7 is as implausible and ridiculous as a Michael Bay film. Never have so many bad guys with machine guns shot so inaccurately, never have so many people survived savage beatings, back-breaking falls, missile attacks and car wrecks that would pulverise a normal human being.
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist Friday 24th April 2015 EDDIE VAN HALEN – Eruption. IRON MAIDEN – Run to the hills. DEEP PURPLE – Black night. CHEAP TRICK – Can’t hold on. AC/DC – Back in black. (Aus) BLACK SABBATH – Paranoid. THE ROLLING STONES – Paint in black. METALLICA – Unforgiven. LED ZEPPELIN – Since I’ve been loving you.
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ reviews superhero blockbuster The Avengers: Age of Ultron as well as a film with a slightly smaller profile and budget, horror film It Follows. There’s a feast of fine music with a focus on Australia this week with the likes of Royal Headache, Megan Washington and Spiderbait. Don’t forget our regular preview of gigs and
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