Ambitious, epic, infuriating, silly and remarkable all in one, Cloud Atlas is the brave attempt by Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer to a adapt David Mitchell’s brain-boggling novel to the big screen. Like Slaughterhouse Five this film jumps back and forth in time from one unusual scenario to another. We go from Jim Sturgess as a morally and
Read moreWhen will the Aussie film industry produce another decent comedy? Not just yet it seems as the latest Aussie comedy film, cricket odyssey Save Your Legs barely raises a chuckle. Save Your Legs is based on an actual tour of India in 2001 by the lowly ranked Abbotsford Anglers Cricket Club. The tour was the subject of a 2005 documentary
Read moreAmerica’s all-consuming obsession with psychiatric treatment and feel-good pharmaceuticals is the back drop for Steven Soderbergh’s intriguing, atmospheric but convoluted thriller, Side Effects. In this film Rooney Mara plays Emily a young woman who, after her husband’s (Channing Tatum) release from prison, begins to exhibit strange and even suicidal behaviour. When a psychiatrist Dr Jonathon Banks (Jude Law) prescribes Emily
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we look at the epic, mind-bending film adaptation of Cloud Atlas and the not so epic Aussie cricket movie Save Your Legs. There’s also plenty of great new music from Australia and overseas including fine indie pop from Bob Evans and the Dylanesque sounds of Jake Bugg. Don’t forget our regular preview of upcoming gigs
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 22nd FEBRUARY 2013 1. REM – That someone is you. 2. THE HUMMINGBIRDS – Word gets around. (Aus) 3. JANELLE MONAE – Faster. 4. THE CLOUDS – Cloud factory (Aus). 5. VAN HALEN – Panama. 6. ADAM ECKERSLEY BAND – Should have known better.(Aus) 7. AEROSMITH – Love in an elevator. 8. JOAN JETT & THE
Read moreThe Last Stand Having ditched politics (at least officially), Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to what he does best, ludicrous, NRA-approved, gun-worshipping action movies. In The Last Stand he’s back playing a noble, heroic, skull-stomping, right-wing authority figure blowing away those evil non-Americans. He’s Sheriff Ray Owens who presides over the Arizona back blocks town of Somerton. Police work in Somerton usually
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