Few directors have captured the trauma of violent conflict as powerfully and realistically as Paul Greengrass has with films like United 93, Bloody Sunday and his contributions to the Jason Bourne saga. His latest film Captain Phillips is no different. This superbly made maritime thriller, which sees heavily-armed Somali pirates take over an American cargo ship, has all the white
Read moreBefore the magnificent cringe comedy of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Ricky Gervais’ The Office was Steve Coogan’s Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge a TV talk show parody in which the eponymous host was as contemptible and hilarious as Larry David or Gervais’ David Brent. The superbly vain, egotistical, spineless and conniving Partridge later appeared in radio
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we take a look at one of the most confronting films of the year in Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. We also review Mystery Road the latest film for Australian director Ivan Sen who impressed so much with his feature debut Beneath Clouds. We also speak to Eddie Tamir, director
Read moreFollowing the disappointment of his last film, the plot-free and mostly laugh-free comedy The Boat that Rocked, Richard Curtis, who also wrote and directed the very fine Love Actually, returns to what he does best: charming, witty rom-coms with sensitive, floppy-haired Englishman. As with all Richard Curtis’ films, his latest effort, About Time is set in an alternate universe where
Read moreThe wonderfully tense and gruelling kidnap drama Prisoners is one of the year’s best films. Relentlessly gripping and often disturbing, the film depicts a parent’s worst nightmare as two little girls mysteriously disappear from a Thanksgiving Day celebration. With the police investigation floundering, one of the girls’ Fathers, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and the investigating detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) resort
Read moreMystery Road is the latest film for writer, director Ivan Sen who achieved critical acclaim with his ethereal debut feature Beneath Clouds in 2002. This crime drama features many of the impressive stylistic touches that made Beneath Clouds so striking but with its glacial pace and thin plot may tax the patience of some audiences. Aaron Pederson (Jack Irish, Water
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