There have been plenty of films about US Special Forces battling terrorists and drug lords and most of these have involved outrageous, cartoonish propaganda, racially stereotyped bad guys, simplistic, biased notions of world conflict and Chuck Norris. Acts of Valour has all these things, minus the Chuck Norris. For many critics this film is an abomination but it’s not designed
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 11TH MAY 2012 1. FISHBONE – Sunless Saturday. 2. THE WALKMEN – Angela Surf City. 3. FLAMING LIPS – Aquarius Sabotage. 4. PAPA VS PRETTY – One of the animals (Aus). 5. FLEET FOXES – Helplessness Blues. 6. DEAD WEATHER – Gasoline. 7. DM 3 – Far from here (Aus). 8. BEASTIE BOYS – Hey
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we pay tribute to the music of the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch he who sadly died on Friday of last week. We’ll have a selection of Beasties tracks including the band’s complex, pop-culture referencing hip-hop and their forays into hardcore punk. Also, this week, 40 years ago The Rolling Stones released Exile on Main Street
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 27TH APRIL 2012 LED ZEPPELIN – Communication breakdown. THE MOVE – I can hear the grass grow. THE STOOGES – Loose. CREAM – Badge. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Up around the bend. SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE – I want to take you higher. BOB DYLAN – I want you. NEIL YOUNG – Don’t let
Read moreThe Lady is the non-descript title for the biopic of Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Apart from a prologue set in 1962 when her Father, Burmese President Aung San, was killed in a military coup, the film focuses on the period from 1988-1999 during which she made the unusual transition from British housewife to Ghandi-like peace activist in
Read moreThose whose heads are still smarting from the brain twisting weirdness of Tree of Life better stock up on Panadol for new time-hopping French Canadian drama Café de Flore. What seems like a fairly straightforward tale of marriage breakdown between a successful DJ, Antoine (musician Kevin Parent) and wife Carole (Helene Florent) becomes increasingly strange as the story jumps back
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