Built for Speed
Program: Built for Speed
Broadcast time: Every Friday night 8pm – 10pm
Presenters: Nick, CJ and Jimbo.
Are you a fan of rock, both alternative and classic?
Want to know whether that cinematic blockbuster or art house flick you’ve heard about is worth your time and your hard-earned cash?
Looking for some questionable comedy and pop-cultural commentary?
Then you need to listen to Built for Speed on 88.3 Southern FM.
Built for Speed presenters CJ, Jimbo and Nick have been blasting the Southern suburbs with their favourite music and totally unbiased film reviews every Friday night at 8pm for nearly 16 years.
Whether it’s established bands or music virtually no-one’s heard about, we’ll bring it you if we think it’s any good. We’re proud to say we were one of the first shows playing artists like Wilco, The Vines and MGMT.
Our film tastes are equally eclectic so if you’re a fan of extreme action, sci-fi, genteel period dramas or some strange combination of these we’ll let you know what’s worth seeing.
We also have the occasional guest drop by and in the past have enjoyed a chat with Mick Molloy, actor Tony Martin, film industry insiders and numerous up-coming bands.
Unlike most programs on the commercial stations we take song requests and every so often tantalise our learned audience with CJ’s rock quiz. So tune in this Friday and gorge yourself on the pop-cultural triple cheese burger that is “Built for Speed”.
Posts for Built for Speed:
Film review: ‘GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Gen X nostalgia train rolls on with latest resurrection of an 80’s favourite, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The original Ghostbusters from 1984 was a fun mix of sci fi, supernatural spookiness and zany comedy. The film worked in part because of the concept and director Ivan Reitman’s deft orchestration of its various elements but mostly because of the cast: Bill
Film review ‘THE ZONE OF INTEREST’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
British director Jonathon Glazer likes to unsettle his audience from the get-go. The beginning of his latest film The Zone of Interest, involves five minutes of blank screen with ominous atmospheric music and ambient noise. Eventually we see a lush, verdant riverbank with people lounging in the sun as if in some vision of Eden. It soon becomes clear this
Film review ‘DUNE: PART 2’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
In 2021, Denis Villeneuve’s first instalment in his cinematic version of Frank Herbert’s iconic 1965 science fiction novel Dune saw young, floppy-haired Duke, Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) battle the invading armies of the nefarious Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard) before becoming a desert dwelling, giant sand worm-loving freedom fighter. It was essentially a sci fi Lawrence of Arabia. While technically impressive
Film review: ‘All of Us Strangers’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Director Andrew Haigh’s wonderful 2017 film, Lean on Pete, which told the story of a young guy (Charlie Plummer) travelling across the American West with a horse he had saved from the slaughterhouse was one of the most affecting films of recent times. Haigh’s latest film, the very moving, intimate, slow burn, All Of Us Strangers similarly draws us into
Film review: ‘THE COLOUR PURPLE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Colour Purple is the cinema adaptation of the stage musical adaptation of the 1985 Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the 1892 Alice Walker novel. This time, Blitz Bazawule rather than Spielberg directs although Spielberg and Quincy Jones return as producers alongside the stage musical’s producers Scott Sanders and Oprah Winfrey. The stage to screen adaptation can be a tricky
Film review: ‘MEAN GIRLS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Look out Generations Y and Z, your cool cultural icons are now becoming retro nostalgia. The latest acquisition is high school clique comedy Mean Girls which was originally filmed in 2004 and propelled Lindsay Lohan to stardom. Like the Colour Purple, Mean Girls was turned into a stage musical that has itself been adapted into a film. The buoyant preview