Happy New Year “Built For Speed” listeners. There’s no respite from the “Built For Speed” machine as we charge through Summer with more fine music, film reviews and pop cultural ramblings. For our first show of 2014 we look at two of the biggest films to hit our cinemas at the end of last year, riotous retro crime caper American
Read moreMerry Christmas one and all. Here’s my take on the best and worst films of the year as well as best and weirdest acting performances and best use of music in a film: Best Films of 2013 The Best Offer The Imposter Prisoners Blue Jasmine Before Midnight American Hustle Twenty Feet from Stardom World War Z Broken Captain Phillips Warm
Read moreWhat would an oppressively hot and sweaty Australian Christmas be without an animated Disney fantasy set in a wintery wonderland. Disney’s’ Christmas offering for 2013 is tween-oriented girl-power adventure, Frozen which is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s fable The Snow Queen. Kristen Bell stars as the voice of irrepressible teen princess Anna whose family rules the fictitious kingdom of Arrendelle. Following
Read moreSet mostly in 1980 and based on a true story, British-Australian co-production The Railway Man begins as a typically quirky, charming romance set in a world of steam trains and verdant English countryside. The film recalls Brief Encounter as the calm, sensible and sensitive Patti (Nicole Kidman) meets and eventually marries the awkward, dishevelled trainspotting nerd Eric Lomax (Colin Firth).
Read moreThe Ron Burgundy Anchorman films are the contemporary equivalent of the Austen Powers movies; heavily art-directed, retro-themed pop-cultural parodies where a naïve, politically-incorrect but lovable central character manages to triumph despite his overwhelming stupidity. The first Anchorman film was a fun, endearing fitfully amusing satire of 1970’s sexism and the news reading profession that allowed Will Ferrell to gloriously indulge
Read moreNick’s rating: ***. Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Science Fiction. Classification: TBA Director(s): Gavin Hood. Release date: 5th Dec 2013. Running time: 114 mins. Based on controversial author Orson Scott Card’s famed 1985 science fiction novel, Ender’s Game is one of the most hotly anticipated film adaptations of recent times. I have not read the book so my review comes from the
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