Film review: TRIPLE 9, from ‘Built For Speed’

On paper Triple 9 looked a winner. A rugged story of police corruption and organised crime helmed by a premier exponent of visceral action films, The Proposition and Lawless director John Hillcoat. The film also boasts a stellar cast including Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck and Woody Harrelson. Despite its seemingly impeccable credentials, though, Triple 9 fails to fire.

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Film review: SON OF SAUL, from ‘Built For Speed’

Son of Saul is one of the most remarkable and disturbing films of recent times. Set in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the later stages of the Second World War, the film depicts the tragic experiences of Saul Auslander (Géza Röhrig) a Hungarian Jewish inmate recruited to the Sonderkommando, a group of Jewish prisoners forced into the hideous task of helping

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WRITE NOW

WRITE NOW – tonight – first up Garry Fabian with a cinema review and travel piece, then I’ll talk with Jaclyn Moriarty about her latest engaging novel: A Tangle of Gold and later I’ll talk with Robert Lastdrager about his book; The Ghost Tram (a little gem). Please join me, Gaytana

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 18th March 2016

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two of the most talked about films currently screening in our cinemas, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest outrageous comedy, Grimsby and the mysterious 10 Cloverfield Lane.  We also dissect Uncut Magazine’s list of the best 200 albums of all time and play some tracks from their selections.  Speaking of self-indulgent

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