This week on Built For Speed we review Australian box office smash The Sapphires and the highly unusual French film Holy Motors. There’s also a fine selection of new and old indie rock and our regular preview of upcoming gigs and TV.
Read moreFollowing It’s Complicated, Hope Springs is Meryl Streep’s second rom com recently that centres on a broken marriage. While it has its pedestrian moments, Hope Springs, is thankfully darker and funnier than It’s Complicated. Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple whose relationship is on life support. Any romantic spark seems to have been snuffed out by their
Read moreWe all know the drill with the Bourne films: frenetic chases and elaborate, utterly implausible action allwrapped in a thin veil of grim, LeCaresque intrigue. The latest addition to the franchise, The Bourne Legacy sticks to the formula but not before a ponderous prologue full of confusing waffle about Treadstone, Black friars, Larx and biochemical experiments. Eventually it emerges that
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 31st AUGUST 2012 1. RED KROSS – Stay away from downtown 2. GAZ COOMBES – Hot fruit 3. VELOCIRAPTOR – Riot 4. ALABAMA SHAKES – Hang loose. 5. THE CULT – Life_Death. 6. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire 7. MISSION OF BURMA – That’s when I reach for my revolver. 8. HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS – Inside
Read moreHopefully the masses survived the trauma of a week without Built For Speed but fear not we’re back this Friday with a packed show. It’s classic album time once again and with Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore soon to be in town for the Melbourne festival, our August album is Sonic Youth’s 1990 breakthrough masterpiece Goo. There’s also plenty of new
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 17TH AUGUST 2012 1. REGURGITATOR – Crush the losers.(Aus) 2. THE MEN – Turn it around. 3. COURTNEY LOVE – Mono. 4. TY STEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – I am not a game. 5. MIKAL CRONIN – Is it alright? 6. POND – Elegant design. (Aus) 7. BADFINGER- No matter what. 8. BEE GEES –You should
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