This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to MIFF programmer Kate Fitzpatrick about the feast of fine films on offer at this year’s festival. We’ll also review new release films ‘Jungle Cruise’ and ‘Nine Days’. There’ll be plenty of magnificent tunes with new Aussie releases as well as indie and classic rock from across the decades. Don’t forget our
Read more‘Built For Speed’ is back this week and on the eve of MIFF we’ll be previewing some of the films on offer including music docos ‘Poly Styrene: I am a cliche’ which looks at the life of the X-Ray Spex singer/ songwriter and ‘Sisters With Transistors’ which explores the under-appreciated contribution of women to electronic music. On a slightly different
Read moreWith some of the ‘nature takes revenge’ horror of The Day of the Triffids, a touch of Black Mirror’s malevolent wit and a nod to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the intriguing, at times sinister but slightly undercooked British sci-fi drama Little Joe takes us into the lucrative but contentious world of bio-engineering and genetic modification. In an unnervingly pristine
Read moreYou may have blissfully entertained the notion that the brain-pummelling Marvel superhero movies had ended with the encouragingly titled Avengers: Endgame. You would, however, be wrong… so wrong. Folks, believe it or not, there’s several lifetimes of these films yet to come. The latest is the unremarkable Natasha Romanov spin-off Black Widow which was largely filmed in Australia. Rather than
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we’ll tell you about the creepy new British sci-fi film ‘Little Joe’. We’ll also take a look at the new Ausssie film ‘Buckley’s Chance’ which, believe it or not, stars Bill Nighy as a grizzled Australian farmer. There’ll be many fine tunes for you with new Aussie and overseas releases as well as indie
Read moreThe documentary The Sparks Brothers attempts to address the enigma that is the band Sparks. Was their music art rock, pop, new wave or electronica? Why did lead songwriter and keyboardist Ron Mael have a toothbrush moustache reminiscent of a certain 20th century dictator? For a band that has been around for 50 years, created at least 300 songs, had
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