This week on the Vibe 15th June

Make sure you tune in this Sunday the 15th June for a later edition of The Vibe. This week we start at 3pm Make sure you tune as we have a huge show planned. Star of the Channel 7 show “Winners and Losers” Virginia Gay will be phoning in for a chat, ahead of the Series Return this Tuesday Night.

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Film review: IDA, from Built For Speed

Despite its meagre budget, the superbly shot, powerfully acted Polish drama Ida is one of the finest films so far this year.  Set in the 1960’s, this story of faith, family, guilt and grief, bitterly reflects on a turbulent period in Poland’s post-war history. Like the recent Philomena, Ida sees a naive religious woman takes to the road with a

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Film review: THE TRIP TO ITALY, from Built For Speed

The Trip was one of recent cinema and television’s comic highlights. Beginning as a TV show it featured comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves in a semi-fictionalised scenario as they toured England’s Lake District sampling its food and culture.  The TV series and its compressed cinema version mixed foodie lifestyle show with the two leads’ wonderfully acerbic but

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 13th June 2014

This week on Built For Speed we take a look at two films set in the world’s trouble spots: Good Vibrations returns us to Northern Ireland in the late 70’s where punk impresario Terri Hooley, against all odds, established his famous record shop and punk label.  We also venture into the West Bank for the intense Palestinian drama Omar.  There’s

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Film review: GODZILLA, from Built For Speed

The latest screen incarnation of Godzilla was preceded by one of the more enticing trailers of recent times.  It depicted a team of paratroopers descending through an ominously dark and cloudy sky to the eerie strains of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Reqium otherwise known as the monolith music from 2001: A Space Odyssey.  It was spooky, menacing and instantly grabbed the attention

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