Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is yet another lumbering, plotless farce in what has to be one of the most undeservedly successful franchises in cinema history – first film excepted. These Pirate films should be rollicking campy adventures but they’re so waterlogged with cgi and so incoherently plotted that they lack both sense and charm. Also,
Read moreDirector Edgar Wright built his reputation on genre parodies, such as zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead, that were often funny and cartoonishly violent and which cleverly sent up the distinctively odd behaviours of that species known as the English male. His latest film, Baby Driver is neither a pastiche (despite recalling other films) nor is it an English lad
Read moreSo here it is, yet another Spider-Man reboot with a completely new cast, this time featuring young British actor Tom Holland in the title role. It seems there’s a global conspiracy to conscript everyone on earth into the role of Spider- Man. Although not quite an origin story or a remake, this film Spider-Man: Homecoming is, in many ways (which
Read moreWith Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan eschews the traditional war movie narrative for a lyrical yet potently realistic depiction of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of France as German shells rained down. There’s no war-room strategy sessions, no soldiers talking about their best girl back home and no Rambo-like action sequences. Instead, Nolan recounts the
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at two of the big recent cinema releases, Second World War drama ‘Dunkirk’ and graphic novel-based action extravaganza ‘Atomic Blonde’. There’ll be plenty of great music with new Australian offerings, classics from across the decades and some of the terrific songs that appear on the ‘Atomic Blonde’ soundtrack. Don’t forget our regular
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Al Cossar, Programmer of the Melbourne International Film Festival about the amazing range of cinematic treats on offer this year. We also take a look at new releases ‘Baby Driver’ and the Radio Birdman documentary, ‘Descent Into the Maelstrom’. There’ll be plenty of great music with recent favourites from Wilco, Kings
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