This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at Bridget Jones’s Baby, will it be good news for fans of the series after the critically savaged Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason? We also have a look at the latest film from Clerks director Kevin Smith, a very unusual comedy entitled Yoga Hosers. There’s a feast of music as we
Read moreThe powerful, disturbing drama Embrace of the Serpent provides a scathing indictment of white colonialism and it’s destruction of indigenous cultures in the Amazon basin. The film is based on the diaries of two scientists from different decades: German ethnographic researcher Theodor Koch-Grunberg (Jan Bijvoet) and Botanist Richard Evans Schultes (Brionne Davis). Koch-Grunberg conducted a four year study of the
Read moreBack in 2002 The Bourne Identity established in Jason Bourne, a new kind of movie spy, one with the destructive skills and resourcefulness of James Bond but none of the imperialism, sexism or playboy antics. This approach was refreshingly gritty and confronting and not surprisingly has heavily influenced the style of recent Bond films. The Bourne franchise struck a major
Read moreThe title of the documentary Hitchcock/ Truffaut may lead people to think it is a parallel biopic of both Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut and that it examines in detail the life and work of arguably the 1950’s two most important film-makers. That’s not quite the case as the focus of this documentary is a 1966 meeting between the two
Read moreBuilt for Speed – 9th September 2016 SUPERGRASS – Richard III. DEER HOOF – Dispossessor. THE JAYHAWKS – Quiet corners and empty spaces. ANGEL OLSEN – Shut up and kiss me. ROGER WATERS, VAN MORRISON & THE BAND – Comfortably numb. GEORGE HARRISON – What is life. TISM – Martin Scorsese is really quite a jovial fellow. THE MONARCHS –
Read moreIt’s a huge ‘Built For Speed’ this week we take a look at the film that has caused a sensation among horror and thriller fans, Don’t Breathe. On a slightly different note we’ll review animated animal comedy The Secret Life of Pets. CJ’s also going to tell us about his audiences with Steve Wozniak and Chatty Man, Alan Carr. There’ll be many
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