Film review: THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, from ‘Built For Speed’

Avengers: Age of Ultron is the 11th Marvel comics cinema adaptation and the series is feeling a little tired.  The first Iron Man and Avengers films cleverly balanced dynamic action with cheeky humour and an inventive vision of futuristic technology but the many Marvel superhero films that have followed, including Age of Ultron, have, unfortunately, become tiresome and infuriatingly cluttered

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Film review: WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, from ‘Built For Speed’

Greenberg and Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach’s latest film While We’re Young is an insightful, sporadically funny comedy/drama about artistic integrity, the disappointments of middle age and the cultural clash between Generations X and Y. Oddly this film has been sold as a light relationship comedy but it’s a more substantial film than that. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star

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Mothers tribute this Sunday

Songs of Hope will have a special mothers tribute this coming Sunday 10 May, Mothers Day. The tribute will be aired at about 8:10am, and go for about 15 minutes. It will include a new poem by Ellen Carr entitled “Whats a mother?”. Only on Southern FM 88.3.

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 8th May 2015

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two of the more interesting films for 2015, the cerebral sci-fi drama Ex Machina and Trash a story of political corruption set amid the Brazilian slums.  There’s also plenty of fine music with a selection of magnificent tracks from Swedish bands like the Hellacopters as well as some terrific new

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