The Wachowski’s latest film, space opera Jupiter Ascending may be visually spectacular bit its barrage of multi-million dollar effects can’t compensate for an outrageously silly and confusingly plot. The Wachowski’s appear to have taken scripting lessons from David Lynch’s version of Dune as Jupiter Ascending makes no sense. Pinching bits of Star Wars, Flash Gordon and the Wachowski’s own Matrix
Read moreWhat We Did On Our Holiday is a quirky, charming and often funny film that still manages to provides a sobering look at volatile and dysfunctional relationships. The ubiquitous Rosamund Pike and former Dr Who David Tennant play a recently separated couple Abi and Doug who are trying to maintain the illusion that they’re still together so as to not
Read moreThe Academy Awards will be held this Sunday in the US and this Friday night ‘Built For Speed’ will give their annual Nostradamus-like predictions of all the winners. We’ll also talk about a few controversial Oscar moments from over the years. Still on movies, we’ll review British comedy/ drama, What We Did on Our Holidays and Sci-Fi behemoth Jupiters Rising. There’s
Read moreThe title of the film Selma refers to the Alabama town in which Martin Luther King Jr organised marches to protest the obstruction of voting rights for black Americans in the south. As anyone familiar with recent American history will recall, one of these protests turned hideously violent when state troopers, police under the command of Sheriff Jim Clark and
Read moreKickass and X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughan’s latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service is a slick, inventive, action-packed but hollow pastiche of British spy movies. Drawing on the Bond films, the 1960’s TV show The Avengers and Men in Black, the film concerns a secret organisation of tweed-coated gentlemen spies known as The Kingsman who operate outside the reach
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we have a look at the most recent Oscar contender released in our cinemas, the dramatization of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s march through Alabama in Selma. We also review Colin Firth’s new role in believe it or not an action/comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service. There’s plenty of fine music from Australia and overseas
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