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Film review: WISH YOU WERE HERE, from Built For Speed
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...
Film review: ACTS OF VALOUR, from Built For Speed
There 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...
What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 11th May 2012
This 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...
Film review: THE LADY from Built For Speed
The 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...
Film review: CAFE DE FLORE from Built for Speed
Those 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...
What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 27th April 2012
This 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...
Film review: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, from Built For Speed
This Must be the Place is a very strange parable of self-discovery that attempts to unite the worlds of Goth rock and Nazi hunters. Sean Penn stars as Cheyenne an ageing American, Robert Smith-like Goth rocker who shuffles around his adopted Irish town in a matted fright wig and bright red lip stick. Damaged after...
Film review: BATTLESHIP, from Built For Speed
Fans of literate tasteful cinema beware, Battleship is everything you hate. Like a hybrid of Pearl Harbour, Transformers and Armageddon, Battleship features masturbatory military fetishism, American flags billowing in the breeze, party animals saving the world and scenes of mass destruction delivered at ear destroying, nerve shattering volume. Add to that one Taylor Kitsch, the...
What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 20th April 2012
It’s time once again for a Built For Speed classic album, this month it’s the self titled debut from The Pretenders. We also have plenty of films to talk about with bloated, sci-fi action flag-waver Battleship and the exceptionally odd This Must Be The Place. Don’t forget our regular previews of upcoming gigs and TV. Check...
Film review: MIRROR MIRROR from Built For Speed
Mirror Mirror attempts to give the Snow White story the post-modern Princess Bride makeover with anachronistic modern references and parody of the fantasy genre. That’s always a tricky proposition because modern references can kill the sense of fantasy if they’re not judged just right. Mirror Mirror is amusing at times but not it’s as funny...
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