Star-packed crime caper film Now You See Me plunges us into the world of glitzy, big-budget magic shows normally occupied by the likes of David Copperfield and Siegfried and Roy. In a fun but extremely far-fetched storyline, four famed magicians J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Henley Leeves (Isla Fisher), Merrit McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are recruited
Read moreSophia Coppola’s latest film The Bling Ring is based on a 2010 Vanity Fair article about the antics of a group of LA high school kids who broke into the homes of dubious celebrities like Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Lindsay Lohan to steal clothes and jewellery. In Sophia Coppola’s film the group are led by bratty alpha-female Nikki (Emma
Read moreThank you Michael Bay, just when directors like Richard Linklater thought they had tricked us into believing that quality cinema was about intelligent dialogue and nuanced characterisation, you remind us that movies are really all about oiled-up muscle men shooting, bashing and blowing each other up in slow-motion orgies of violence. Bay’s latest masterpiece Pain and Gain, which is loosely
Read moreIt’s time once again for the Bayside Film Festival and this week on Built For Speed we speak to festival director Richard Moore about all the wonderful cinematic treats on offer. It’s also time for Built For Speed’s classic album and this month we go back to 1977 for the debut self-titled album by The Clash. There’s also plenty of terrific new
Read moreAmerican punk band The Descendents were 15 years ahead of their time. Their combination of machine gun riffs and Beatlesque melodies presaged Green Day by more than a decade and, as Dave Grohl points out, would have made them megastars had their classic albums been released in the 1990’s. The documentary Filmage: The story of the Descendants/ All charts their
Read more100 Bloody Acres is a low–budget Australian horror/comedy that provides a humorous but still gory, spin on backwoods slasher films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wolf Creek. In typical hillbilly horror fashion, the film begins with three pretty young people Sophie (Anna McGahan), her boyfriend James (Oliver Ackland) and their annoying English backpacker mate Wes (Jamie Kristian), lost in
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