What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 1st Jan 2016

This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ kicks off 2016 with a selection of favourite tracks from across the decades.  There’ll be classics from The Replacements, Bob Dylan, The Kills, Dinosaur Jr and many others.  We also pay tribute to two great rockers who left us this week: Stevie Wright and Lemmy.  On the movie front we look at two new films

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Film review: SPECTRE, from ‘Built For Speed’

The last James Bond movie, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall was, for the most part, an exciting and clever re-imagining of Bond mythology that drew on both the Bourne movies and the Christopher Nolan’s Batman films for its visceral action, genuinely menacing villain and creepy noir atmosphere. It’s departure from the more frivolous and hedonistic style of the older Bond films didn’t

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Film review: LOVE, THE COOPERS, from ‘Built For Speed’

In 2005 Love Actually set the benchmark for rom-coms featuring a large sprawling cast of name actors playing characters whose personal and professional lives intertwine in a quirky, amusing and sometimes bittersweet fashion. Love Actually was also a Christmas movie and successfully infused its romantic tales with the elation and pain of Christmas. Love, The Coopers attempts something similar with

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Film review: IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, from ‘Built For Speed’

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick is alternately one the greatest and one of the most tedious books of all time. Melville’s epic summations of human history and culture are wonderfully evocative but his frequent and long-winded descriptions of whaling contraptions are a major chore. Ron Howard’s latest film, In The Heart of The Sea, which is based on the

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Film review: BRIDGE OF SPIES, from ‘Built For Speed’

Steven Spielberg has a penchant for making films about quiet, steely, morally upstanding men who defy authorities to effect vital change in society. He eloquently explored this type of character in the Schindler’s List and Lincoln and he addresses a similar theme in the impressive if not utterly compelling Cold War drama Bridge Of Spies. The film tells the surprising

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