America’s all-consuming obsession with psychiatric treatment and feel-good pharmaceuticals is the back drop for Steven Soderbergh’s intriguing, atmospheric but convoluted thriller, Side Effects. In this film Rooney Mara plays Emily a young woman who, after her husband’s (Channing Tatum) release from prison, begins to exhibit strange and even suicidal behaviour. When a psychiatrist Dr Jonathon Banks (Jude Law) prescribes Emily
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we look at the epic, mind-bending film adaptation of Cloud Atlas and the not so epic Aussie cricket movie Save Your Legs. There’s also plenty of great new music from Australia and overseas including fine indie pop from Bob Evans and the Dylanesque sounds of Jake Bugg. Don’t forget our regular preview of upcoming gigs
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 1st MARCH 2013 1. KING TUFF – Bad thing. 2. THE GRATES – Lies are much more fun. (Aus) 3. THE PICTURES – See you home tonight. (Aus) 4. BILL WYMAN – Je suis un rock star. 5. THE LIARBIRDS – The Growl (Aus) 6. LOON LAKE – Cherry lips. (Aus) 7. THE MODELS – Barbados.(Aus)
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 22nd FEBRUARY 2013 1. REM – That someone is you. 2. THE HUMMINGBIRDS – Word gets around. (Aus) 3. JANELLE MONAE – Faster. 4. THE CLOUDS – Cloud factory (Aus). 5. VAN HALEN – Panama. 6. ADAM ECKERSLEY BAND – Should have known better.(Aus) 7. AEROSMITH – Love in an elevator. 8. JOAN JETT & THE
Read moreThe Last Stand Having ditched politics (at least officially), Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to what he does best, ludicrous, NRA-approved, gun-worshipping action movies. In The Last Stand he’s back playing a noble, heroic, skull-stomping, right-wing authority figure blowing away those evil non-Americans. He’s Sheriff Ray Owens who presides over the Arizona back blocks town of Somerton. Police work in Somerton usually
Read moreClearly encouraged by the phenomenal success of the Twilight series, writer director Richard La Grevanese tries to capture that lucrative mix of teen romance and supernatural horror in his adaptation of Kami Garcia’s novel Beautiful Creatures. For some this will be a daunting prospect as the Twilight films weren’t exactly artistic triumphs. Thankfully, Beautiful Creatures undercuts the typical tedious po-faced
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