This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the new live action musical version of ‘Aladdin’. We’ll also satisfy your burning curiosity about whether ‘Pokemon Detective Pikachu’ is any good. There’ll plenty of magnificent tunes for you with new Aussie tracks, American alternative favourites from the 2000’s and classic rock including a tribute to recent birthday boy
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two slightly different films: Mike Leigh’s British historical drama ‘Peterloo’ and the remake of ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ ‘The Hustle’ which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. There’ll also be plenty of fine music with new Aussie tracks, indie favourites from across the decades and classic rock. Don’t forget our
Read moreExploring America’s destructive uber capitalism has been a frequent movie topic since Wall Street and particularly in the last few years in the wake of the GFC with films like The Big Short. The Hummingbird Project explores a high-stakes, corporate gamble and even though the film revolves around an infrastructure project it’s a surprisingly compelling, if at times irritating corporate
Read moreThe Curse of The Weeping Woman comes from the conjuring stable which many will now know means a mix of moody supernatural horror and religious references. It also means a lottery in terms of quality as the two Conjuring films were some of the best horror flicks of the last 20 years while others in the franchise, such as The
Read moreThe Chaperone is a charming but underweight and oddly creaky story of self-discovery and the emergence of a star amid the rapidly changing world of 1920’s America. The chaperone of the title is Norma Carlisle (Downtown Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern) a rather prim and proper woman from Kansas who surprisingly offers to chaperone 15-year-old Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) while she
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at new Aussie rom-com ‘Top End Wedding’ which stars Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee. We’ll also take a look at one man’s unusual odyssey across Europe and Asia in ‘The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir’. As well as that we’ll let you know all about the ‘Revolutions: Records and Rebels’
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