Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 31st January 2014

Built For Speed – Playlist – Friday 31st January 2014 LONG HOLIDAY– Insane. (Aus) KINGS OF LEON – Supersoaker. SUEDE – Hit Me. JEREMY NEALE – A lover affair to keep you there. (Aus) BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES – The Corner Man. PHARRELL WILLIAMS – Happy. CURTIS STIGGERS & THE FOREST RANGERS – This life. FEFE – Cause Toujours.

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Film review: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES, from Built For Speed

The first two instalments in the Paranormal Activity horror movie series created a genuine sense of terror by subtlety placing intensifying supernatural events in a believable everyday setting.  The story of an average person being targeted by an evil force recalled the demonic threat of The Exorcist while the home-movie found-footage aesthetic gave the films a disturbing verisimilitude. Subsequent instalments

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Film review: JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT, from Built For Speed

The novelty of Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst character Jack Ryan is that as a Phd he’s not just a gun-toting assassin but a highly educated man who uses his intellect to combat villains.  It’s only after the bad guys prove themselves to be sufficiently non-compliant with American values that he administers an ass-kicking.  Jack Ryan has had nearly as many

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Film review: BIG ASS SPIDER, from Built For Speed

Big Ass Spider should be an hilarious and gloriously stupid straight to DVD trash-fest.  Like Sharknado and Snakes On A Plane, however, Big Ass Spider suffers from the fact that it tries to have a bet each way, it plays with the tropes and clichés of b-movies and “creature features” but also tries to be a straight up action film. 

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 31st January 2014

This week on Built For Speed we play a selection of music from the film The Wolf of Wall Street as well as some tracks that should have appeared in the JJJ top 100.  There’ll be plenty of fine Australian music and some selections from overseas.  We also take a look at two current genre films screening in our cinemas: old

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