Film review: VACATION, from ‘Built For Speed’

The original National Lampoon’s Vacation from 1983 was an amiable, occasionally risqué comic farce that cheerfully and amusingly exploited the trauma of family holidays and in particular road trips. Building on an enjoyably silly performance from lead Chevy Chase as slightly deranged patriarch Clark Griswold, that film generated enough good will to warrant a number of sequels of admittedly decreasing

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 21st August 2015

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we celebrate the music of one of the greatest bands of the last 20 years, Radiohead.  Join us as we explore their remarkably diverse catalogue of albums from ‘Pablo Honey’ to ‘King of Limbs’.  On the movie front we take a look at the cinema adaptation of 60’s TV show The Man From UNCLE and

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