Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 20th April 2012

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 20TH APRIL 2012 WILD FLAG- Romance DEVIN – You’re mine. GUIDED BY VOICES – Motorway. BIG SCARY – Hey somebody. (AUS) RADIOHEAD – Just. YOU AM I – Berlin Chair.(AUS) AC/DC – Thunderstuck.(AUS) PRETENDERS – Up the neck. PRETENDERS – Kid. PRETENDERS – Tattooed Lover Boys. SUNNYBOYS – Liar. (AUS) RED KROSS – Yesterday once

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Film review: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, from Built For Speed

This Must be the Place is a very strange parable of self-discovery that attempts to unite the worlds of Goth rock and Nazi hunters. Sean Penn stars as Cheyenne an ageing American, Robert Smith-like Goth rocker who shuffles around his adopted Irish town in a matted fright wig and bright red lip stick. Damaged after a lifetime of drug use

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Film review: BATTLESHIP, from Built For Speed

Fans of literate tasteful cinema beware, Battleship is everything you hate.  Like a hybrid of Pearl Harbour, Transformers and Armageddon, Battleship features masturbatory military fetishism, American flags billowing in the breeze, party animals saving the world and scenes of mass destruction delivered at ear destroying, nerve shattering volume. Add to that one Taylor Kitsch, the man who distinguished himself with

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 20th April 2012

It’s time once again for a Built For Speed classic album, this month it’s the self titled debut from The Pretenders.  We also have plenty of films to talk about with bloated, sci-fi action flag-waver Battleship and the exceptionally odd This Must Be The Place.  Don’t forget our regular previews of upcoming gigs and TV.  Check out Built for Speed, Friday

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Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 13th April 2012

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 13TH APRIL 2012    THE SATANICS – See you in hell. OZZY OSBOURNE – Crazy train. IRON MAIDEN – Number of the beast. MISFITS – Where Eagles dare. PRINCE – Let’s go crazy. GOTYE – Somebody that I used to know.(AUS) GUNS ‘N’ ROSES – You could be mine. METALLICA – All nightmare long. THE GO

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Film review: MIRROR MIRROR from Built For Speed

Mirror Mirror attempts to give the Snow White story the post-modern Princess Bride makeover with anachronistic modern references and parody of the fantasy genre.  That’s always a tricky proposition because modern references can kill the sense of fantasy if they’re not judged just right.  Mirror Mirror is amusing at times but not it’s as funny as Princess Bride nor is

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