Wish You Were Here is a new Australian mystery thriller that has nothing to do with the classic Pink Floyd album of the same name. Being a contemporary Australian film it of course stars Joel Edgerton as a stressed bogan family man and has a fragmented narrative structure. The film jumps back and forth through time, feeding the audience slivers
Read moreThere have been plenty of films about US Special Forces battling terrorists and drug lords and most of these have involved outrageous, cartoonish propaganda, racially stereotyped bad guys, simplistic, biased notions of world conflict and Chuck Norris. Acts of Valour has all these things, minus the Chuck Norris. For many critics this film is an abomination but it’s not designed
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we pay tribute to the music of the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch he who sadly died on Friday of last week. We’ll have a selection of Beasties tracks including the band’s complex, pop-culture referencing hip-hop and their forays into hardcore punk. Also, this week, 40 years ago The Rolling Stones released Exile on Main Street
Read moreThe Lady is the non-descript title for the biopic of Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Apart from a prologue set in 1962 when her Father, Burmese President Aung San, was killed in a military coup, the film focuses on the period from 1988-1999 during which she made the unusual transition from British housewife to Ghandi-like peace activist in
Read moreThose whose heads are still smarting from the brain twisting weirdness of Tree of Life better stock up on Panadol for new time-hopping French Canadian drama Café de Flore. What seems like a fairly straightforward tale of marriage breakdown between a successful DJ, Antoine (musician Kevin Parent) and wife Carole (Helene Florent) becomes increasingly strange as the story jumps back
Read moreThis week Built For Speed goes retro as we explore the music of that classic period from 1968 to 1972. There’ll be plenty of Beatles, Stones, Velvets and Stooges and much more. We also look at a stack of films this week including art house head-scratcher Cafe de Flore, Brit drama Deep Blue Sea and the animated fun of Pirates.
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