With a guaranteed worldwide audience but also an amazingly finicky, near-fundamentalist fan base, helming a Star Wars film must be a very tantalising and yet daunting prospect for any director. After directing the mostly loved The Force Awakens, JJ Abrams takes back the reins from Rian Johnson who gave us the intriguingly off-beat but ultimately silly, The Last Jedi. With
Read moreTHE ‘BUILT FOR SPEED: END OF YEAR SPECTACULAR’ This Friday night it’s the big one folks, the ‘Built For Speed: End of Year Spectacular’. You want self-indulgent lists? Look no further as the ‘Built For Speed’ crew reveal their best, worst, most overrated and underrated films, their favourite albums and the best and worst TV of 2019. We’ll also have
Read moreThe original Jumanji from 1995 was a minor Gen X pop cultural touchstone. Often resembling a Spielberg film, it combined childhood escapist adventure, over-the-top special effects and the late Robin Williams patented brand of manic performance for a mostly entertaining adventure. Sniffing the Gen X nostalgia dollar and the instant merch potential of a film built around a video game,
Read moreNew Zealand director Taika Waititi has been one of the more surprising Hollywood success stories. His idiosyncratically Kiwi comedies have leapt over cultural barriers to gain the attention of major Hollywood players and earn him A-list status. Some, like myself, may not have entirely warmed to his droll, piss-taking style of humour although the fact that it infiltrated the vast
Read moreIt’s here folks, this Friday ‘Built For Speed’ will once again provide the perfect complement (and hopefully not antidote) to Christmas Cheer with our Christmas Special. We’ll play a selection of our favourite Christmas tunes and hopefully prove that the Christmas is not a wasteland for rock and pop music. We’ll also keep the film reivews coming as we take
Read moreSorry We Missed You is another gruelling and vitally important piece of social realism from veteran British director Ken Loach. There was a lot of talk about Joker capturing the destructive desperation of life at the lower end of the socio-economic scale but that film looks fanciful compared to this raw, sincere and heart-wrenching drama. Sorry We Missed You explores
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