This week on Built For Speed we check out two new release films: Identity Thief, a comedy that isn’t very funny and The Host, a serious sci fi romance that is (unintentionally) funny. We also round out our lists of all time favourite vocalists with tracks from the likes of Cheap Trick and Danzig. There’s also plenty of contemporary indie rock and
Read more1. LED ZEPPELIN – Over the hills and far away. 2. THE REPLACEMENTS – Raised in the city. 3. ARETHA FRANKLIN – Since you been gone. 4. ELVIS – One Night. 5. THE CLOUDS – Souleater. (Aus) 6. FRANKIE VALLEY AND THE FOUR SEASONS – Oh what a night. 7. JAMES REYNE – Fall of Rome.(Aus) 8. RICK SPRINGFIELD –
Read moreKon Tiki has nothing to do with drunken Aussies on package overseas holiday tours. Instead, it’s a dramatisation of the amazing journey taken across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 by Norwegian archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl. Thor believed that, a thousand years ago, Polynesians had originally journeyed to the pacific islands from South America rather than Asia as was popularly believed. When
Read moreI have to confess, I’m not normally a fan of zombie movies and that includes lauded films like 28 Days Later. I generally find the sight of people in bad make-up shuffling around and eating gizzards pretty tedious. Warm Bodies, however, is a different kind of zombie film. First of all, it’s told from a zombie’s perspective and secondly it
Read moreLike its title character, Therese Desqueyroux has a refined surface beauty and a subdued manner but with tension and despair bubbling underneath. The troubled Thérèse (Audrey Tatou) is a free spirit, an intellectual and seemingly in love with another woman, Anne (Anais Demoustier) or at least the memory of the passionate friendship and freedom they shared as teenagers. Thérèse is,
Read moreLike horse racing, car racing and mime, ballet is not a spectacle that I find interesting. It’s a testament, therefore, to the quality of ballet documentary First Position that someone like myself who has little interest in the art depicted found the film riveting from start to finish. The film focuses on a group of aspiring young dancers as they
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