What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 21st September 2012

This week on Built For Speed we step away from the art house reviews and provide our consumer guide to the school holiday movies: Madagascar 3, Diary of a wimpy kid and (for gore loving teens) Bait 3D.  It’s also time for a Built For Speed classic album and this month it’s Neil Young’s 1970 masterpiece After the Goldrush.  There’s

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Radio Ga Ga Travel Song Special This Saturday

With main host Mark off on his travels this week, stand in show host Clem will be firing up the kombi and taking Radio Ga Ga itself travelling.  Many a tune has been penned about travel or travelling.  Rambling and wandering down country roads to Memphis, California, Amsterdam or even St Kilda to Kings Cross. You’ll hear from artists as

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Film review: HIT AND RUN, from Built For Speed

Hit and Run is a middling crime comedy that often plays like Tarantino-lite.  In an in advisable piece of multi-tasking Dax Shepard (from TV’s Parenthood) writes, co-directs and stars in this film.  While there are amusing, exciting and even insightful moments, a different set of eyes may have helped him avoid some of this film’s flat spots and half-baked gags.

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Film review: HOLY MOTORS, from Built For Speed

Holy Motors is one of those films where you will constantly ask “what the hell is going on?”. This French film features a gurning, sinewy Gollum man who initially appears to be a wealthy businessman but who cruises around in a stretch limo putting on weird disguises and engaging in bizarre, sometimes violent acts.  At one point he’s a crippled

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