Here on ‘Built For Speed’ we like to discuss the full spectrum of cinema and it would be hard to find two more aesthetically different films than ‘Downton Abbey’ and the IMAX Aussie crocodile doc ‘Wild Top End 3D’. This Friday we’ll let you know if these films are worth your time. We’ll also have many fine tunes for you with new Aussie
Read moreIt’s Friday the 13th, just the time to talk horror movies and this week ‘Built For Speed’ reviews the big horror release ‘It: Chapter 2’. On a slightly different note we also review family drama ‘Farewell’. The ‘Built For Speed’ crew checked out US band Greta Van Fleet at the Forum last week and we’ll tell you all about that
Read moreIn 1972, at the pinnacle if her career, Aretha Franklin chose to record an album of the gospel music she had sung as a young girl in church with her father. Rather than turn to the recording studio, Aretha decided to record it in a church with a congregation as the audience. That venue was the New Temple Missionary Baptist
Read moreAri Aster made an immediate and profound impression with his disturbing feature-length directorial debut Hereditary. A creepy supernatural thriller, Hereditary introduced a film-maker with an aesthetic style that was strikingly distinct but in its meticulous framing and vivid pristine images, also informed by legends such as Stanley Kubrick. His follow-up Midsommar exudes similar menace and boasts much of Hereditary’s visual
Read morePalm Beach, the new Aussie relationship drama from director Rachel Ward, builds its story around a very familiar template: A group of older middle-aged, upper middle-class friends come together for a weekend where amiable socialising gives way to people venting hidden resentments, revealing past infidelities and lamenting personal disappointments. At the screening, star Bryan brown said the story was inspired
Read moreIn her breakthrough horror film, The Babadook, writer director Jennifer Kent used a supernatural menace to represent the threat and anxiety experienced by a single mother played by Esse Davis. Her latest film, the gruelling historical drama, The Nightingale, sees a woman and an indigenous man confronted by a more realistic threat in the brutal racist patriarchy of a British
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