This week on ‘Built For speed’ CJ will tell us about the all-star gig featuring, The Jacksons, Kool and the Gang and The Village People. On the movie front we’ll review two films featuring slightly different characters, Dick Cheney and Mary Poppins in ‘Vice’ and ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ respectively. There’ll also be plenty of fine tunes with new Aussie and
Read more‘Built For Speed’ is back for 2019 and this week we have a packed show for you as we catch up with some of the big films released over the Christmas period including ‘Aquaman’ and ‘The Favourite’. We’ll also tell you about the Interpol gig at the Palais last Friday. There’ll be plenty of fine tunes including some Interpol faves,
Read moreConceptually inventive but poorly executed, the clunky, ridiculous post-apocalyptic steam-punk, sci-fi adventure Mortal Engines is one of the least convincing sci-fi epics of recent years. The film, which is based on Phillip Reeve’s popular novels, is set in a post-nuclear holocaust future where Earth’s surface has been bombarded by a doomsday weapon and turned into a scarred semi-desert. While some
Read moreMexican director and cinematographer Alfonso Cuaron is renowned for his startling looking films such as Children of Men and Gravity not forgetting his superb contribution to the Harry Potter franchise, The Prisoner of Azkaban. In his latest film, the remarkable and apparently semi-autobiographical, Roma he turns his astonishing aesthetic talents to both his home country of Mexico and what appears
Read moreDirector Steve McQueen has distinguished himself with confronting and intelligent films that, while not highly experimental, avoid many of current cinema’s clichés. He impresses once again with a contemporary US adaptation – co-written by Gone Girl novelist Gillian Flynn – of Lynda la Plante’s 1980’s British crime drama Widows. Leading a superb cast, Viola Davis plays Veronica, the wife of
Read moreAnyone who saw Pawel Pawlikowski’s magnificent 2012 film Ida would be eagerly awaiting his latest release, Cold War and they definitely won’t be disappointed. Pawlikowski’s film’s pay obvious homage to new wave Polish cinema of the 1950’s but still have a wonderfully distinct style and tone with their stunning black and white cinematography and exquisite images contrasted with flawed, even
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