Built For Speed – Playlist Friday 30th January 2015 THE WALKMEN – Angela surf city. THE GO TEAM – Buy nothing day. TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. QUEEN – Modern times rock’n’roll. KENNY ROGERS – The Gambler. ACE FREHLEY – Back in the New York groove. SUZI QUATRO – Rock hard. SUN GOD REPLICA – Who’s gonna die. (Aus)
Read moreThe riveting true-crime drama Foxcatcher explores the strange and catastrophic relationship between champion American wrestling brothers Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and their disturbed patron, du Pont chemical company head John du Pont (Steve Carrell). Mark Schultz won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the LA Olympics in ’84 but neither lucrative endorsements nor regular income
Read moreRenowned physicist Stephen Hawking is such a towering figure he has moved beyond the cloistered world of science and academia to become a pop-cultural icon. He has even earned the occasional appearance on the Big Bang Theory where he regularly taunts Sheldon. The Theory of Everything dramatises Hawking’s (Eddie Redmayne) life during what is arguably his most productive and tumultuous
Read moreWith its factual story of a troubled young woman trekking through rugged wilderness, the engrossing drama Wild evokes immediate comparisons with Sean Penn’s Into The Wild and the recent Australian film Tracks. While not quite as moving as Into the Wild, this film is much more successful than Tracks in conveying a story of a young woman’s quest for fulfilment
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we take a look at two Oscar contenders which feature stand-out performances from their lead actors, the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything starring Eddie Redmayne and the adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s account of her cathartic trek across the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild which stars Reese Witherspoon. There’s also plenty of fine
Read moreIf there’s a more puerile film than The Wedding Ringer this year, God help humanity. This mindless and mirthless variation on the 80’s party animal movie formula makes Adam Sandler‘s films look like the works of Noel Coward. Admittedly, this film stars Kevin Hart of Ride Along infamy so we shouldn’t have expected much. Hart plays Jimmy Callahan a man
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