After our look back at our favourite tracks from the first decade of the 21st century, this week on Built For Speed we play a feast of new Australian and OS tracks including Melody’s Echo Chamber, Beaches and Savages. It’s also time for the Built For Speed classic album and this month it’s Fishbone’s 1991 funk, punk, metal, soul masterpiece
Read moreBroken is a moving, low-key family drama and teen coming-of-age story set in a lower middle class North London suburb. The film centres on Skunk (Eloise Laurence) an ebullient 13 year old girl who lives with her step Mother (Zana Marjanovic), older teen brother Jed (Bill Milner) and alternating father figures: dad Archie (Tim Roth) and her step mother’s new
Read moreF. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby captured America amid the hedonism and chaos of the “jazz age” a time when the nation was giddy with power from its First World War economic boom. The book focused on an American upper class of wealthy white folks who, in addition to their sedate garden parties and boating regattas, regularly gathered for
Read moreIs Springbreakers saying something profound about disillusioned western youth and the hideous culture of sleaze that surrounds them or is it just teen sexploitation tricked up with art house gimmicks? One thing is certain, this film, the latest from the ironically named Harmony Korine, will divide audiences like a meat cleaver. Spring break is the American equivalent of schoolies where
Read moreFor the life of me I can’t understand the fuss about Ryan Gosling. He has been dubbed the actor of his generation but to my mind that honour firmly belongs to Michael Fassbender. For me Gosling’s minimalist acting and smirking arrogant manner have stopped most of his films cold. A movie with the right script and sympathetic direction, however, can
Read moreThere’s four reasons why the original Star Trek TV series has such enduring popularity: there’s the superbly cheesy 60’s pop-art production design, the exploration of moral and philosophical issues that clearly fascinated creator Gene Roddenberry, the fact that it makes nerdy scientists look like heroes but mainly it’s the wonderful characters. Chief among these is Capt. James Tiberius Kirk who,
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