Built For Speed – Playlist – Friday 30th August 2013 RADIOHEAD – Electioneering. THE DEAD KENNEDYS – Kill the poor. EVEN – ‘Til the end of the day. (Aus) THE FAUVES – Everybody’s getting a three piece together. (Aus) ASH – Girl from Mars. NIRVANA – Smells like teen spirit. THE VERVE – Bittersweet symphony. THE JACKSON FIVE – The
Read moreThis week on Built for Speed we take a look a host of current release films including Neil Blomkamp’s follow-up to District 9, the socially conscious sci-fi actioner Elysium, outrageous comedy We’re the Millers and Woody Allen-influenced quirkfest Frances Ha. There’s also plenty of new release music and older tracks including a classic from Michael Jackson who would have celebrated
Read moreSeemingly cobbled together like Frankenstein’s monster from bits of Harry Potter, Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the latest supernatural teen-adventure romance, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Based on the first book in the series of popular novels by Cassandra Clare, this adaptation is, despite expensive and elaborate production design and a multitude of action sequences, strangely dull and
Read moreImagine Bridget Jones’s Diary and Zooey Deschanel’s TV show New Girl filtered through the mind of Woody Allen and you would have ultra-quirky, 20-something comedy Frances Ha. Greta Gerwig plays the ditzy, flaky title character, a 27-year-old woman who floats through her quasi-hipster life in New York City hoping to make it as a professional dancer. With almost no money
Read moreWe’re the Millers is one of this year’s guilty pleasures. Even though it’s low-brow, formulaic and implausible, it’s still an enjoyable comedy. The film bubbles away in an amiable, mildly risqué fashion that recalls the National Lampoon Vacation movies. Its trump card is a fine cast of comedy actors led by Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston whose well-honed comic timing
Read moreSouth African director Neill Blomkamp burst onto cinema screens in 2009 with his superb debut film District 9. That film intelligently mixed sci-fi spectacle with biting humour, Kafkaesque themes of identity loss and potent social commentary about poverty, the plight of refugees and socio-economic and racial divisions in South Africa. District 9 was always going to be a tough act
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