Nick’s rating: Four stars. Genre: Documentary. Classification: M. Director(s): Morgan Neville. Release date: 21st Nov 2013 Running time: 91 mins. Music fans do not want to miss the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom which treats us to the remarkable talents of rock’s great back-up singers. The film focuses on the work of Darlene Love who has sung with The Beach
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist – Friday 22nd November 2013 THE POWDERMONKEYS – I thank you. (Aus) THE BRONX – Ribcage. SUEDE – It starts and ends with you. KINGS OF LEON – Supersoaker. SEBADOH – Keep the boy alive. THE REPLACEMENTS – Alex Chilton. REM – South Central Rain. HUSKER DU – Don’t want to know if you are
Read moreWith the excellent Harry Potter film adaptations and the not so excellent Twilight films now done and dusted, the quest for the teen movie dollar falls to The Hunger Games series. The first instalment, simply titled The Hunger Games, was moderately inventive, occasionally exciting and at times attractively shot but was let down by maddening use of wobble cam during
Read moreBad Grandpa is the latest prank-fest from those renowned purveyors of low-brow cinema, Jackass. These guys having been putting their testicle-smashing, flesh-burning, skull-cracking stunts on film for over a decade but what may have once been shocking and edgy is now becoming familiar and predictable. Perhaps aware of this, the group’s Johnny Knoxville has with Bad Grandpa, attempted to transplant
Read moreThe warm, amusing and highly informative documentary Lygon Street – Si parla Italiano recounts the history of one of Melbourne and Australia’s most iconic streets. The film, engagingly narrated by Anthony La Paglia and featuring recollections from some of the street’s most prominent restaurateurs, traces the story of Lygon Street from its beginnings as a safe haven for waves of
Read moreSlotting somewhere between The Social Network and the recent Steve Jobs biopic, The Fifth Estate dramatises the creation of Wikileaks and the relationship between its Editor in chief Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the man who helped him create the site, German computer wiz Daniel Berg (Daniel Bruhl). The film traces their increasingly ambitious and provocative attempts to expose what
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