This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at low-budget drama ‘Blue Bayou’ from director/ star Justin Chon, co-starring Alicia Vikander. There’ll also be a feast of fine music with new Aussie and overseas tracks as well as indie and classic rock favourites from across the decades. Check out ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 8-10pm on 88.3 Southern FM.
Read moreThe 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die had promised to appear so many times we were starting to wonder whether it actually existed. Of course, Covid was largely blame for its absence but thankfully, with cinemas now open, it’s finally with us and it was definitely worth the wait. No Time to Die is the final Bond film
Read moreThe Many Saints of Newark is writer/ producer David Chase’s eagerly anticipated feature-length prequel to one of the most lauded TV series in history, The Sopranos. While the show’s contemporary The Wire was about sociology, The Sopranos was about psychology, its central motif was the therapy that mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) underwent with psychiatrist Dr Melfi (Lorraine Bracco).
Read moreTonight on ‘Built For Speed’ we’ll take a look at the confronting documentary ‘A Fire Inside’ which explores the impact of the 2019 bushfires. We’ll also take a brief look at some of the films that came out over the last few months and are now accessible on cinema ‘at home’ services. There’ll be a feast of fine music with
Read moreThe original 1992 version of The Candyman, which was based on Clive Barker’s story The Forbidden, formed part of the early 90’s urban legend horror genre which repurposed the slasher movie into a kind of cultural myth designed to reflect the anxieties of a particular community. Notably, that community was African Americans who had normally been on the periphery of
Read moreHi folks, here’s a few reviews of films screening at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. Hopper/Welles (Documentary; dir: Orson Welles; 120 mins; unclassified 18+) Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles are two of Hollywood’s most iconic, controversial and enigmatic figures. Hopper, the notoriously wild, rule shattering rebel who was once deported from Australia and Welles the artistic polymath with the
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