German film Wetlands is the strangest and most provocative film so far this year. A bizarre journey into confused sexuality and childhood trauma, this film features some of the most confronting scenes we’re likely to witness on a cinema screen. Every bodily fluid is emitted and smeared across the screen while every body part is waved, shaved poked, prodded and
Read moreBoyhood is a touching and lyrical film but the story about how it was made is more impressive than what we see on screen. Director Richard Linklater constructed it over 12 years and filmed it in segments between his other projects. A synopsis of the film might bring to mind the Seven-Up series as it follows a young boy named
Read moreThis week on “Built for Speed” we talk to Scot Leslie, Director of the Firelight Music Festival which takes place on Saturday September 20th at the Beaconhills Performing Arts Centre and features Antiskeptic among many others. On the movie front we explore Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic vision for a cinematic version of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune in the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune. We also
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we speak to Elysia Zeccola-Hill, the Director of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival which runs (in Melbourne) from 17th Sept – 12th Oct. She will tell us all about the wonderfully diverse program of films on offer at the festival. On a slightly different note we’ll also review the movie reboot of the Teenage Mutant
Read moreMagic in the Moonlight, the latest film from Woody Allen, is an engaging light-weight rom-com that explores familiar Woody Allen themes of existential angst, the search for life’s meaning and the curative power of fantasy and romance. Set in 1928, the film stars Colin Firth as misanthropic stage magician, self-proclaimed intellectual and avowed sceptic, Stanley who has earned acclaim for
Read moreThe genesis of Predestination seems to have been a competition to come up with the most brain-twisting time travel story imaginable. Never has a film folded in on itself quite like Predestination. Based on the Robert Heinlein short story All You Zombies and touching on other time travel and sci-fi films such as Looper, Time Cop and Minority Report, Predestination
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