Two Smokin’ Guns powered up again – Podcast
This week’s episode of Two Smokin’ Guns has a touch of 007 in its mix of madcap fun and Bayside brilliance.
Read moreFilm review: ‘ANIMALS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth (who also wrote the script), edgy Irish/ Australian romantic drama Animals explores a compellingly messy world of female friendship, modern feminism, failing dreams and the pressures of adult responsibility. Holliday Grainger stars as Laura, an aspiring novelist living on the ragged fringes of the Dublin arts community, whose attempts to write a
Read moreFilm review: ‘SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Directed by Troll Hunter’s André Øvredal and based on the book series by Alvin Schwartz, teen horror film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a stylishly made but familiar horror flick that turns spooky ‘torch under the face’ campfire tales into an It-style battle between teen nerds and a malevolent supernatural force. The ersatz Losers Club here are
Read moreFilm review: ‘RAMBO: LAST BLOOD’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Rambo film franchise began encouragingly in 1982 with First Blood, a convincingly raw and gritty survivalist action movie with Sylvester Stallone memorable as the Vietnam vet John Rambo battling personal demons and Sheriff Brian Dennehy. The sequels saw the quality rapidly nose-dive as Rambo transformed into a ridiculous, mulleted killing-machine who slaughtered his way through nations of evil non-Americans
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built for Speed’ Friday 27th September 2019
This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two films that (not always for good reasons) are some of the more confronting recent cinema releases: ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ and Irish/ Australia drama ‘Animals’. We’ll also have a feast of fine music for you with more tracks from all-time favourites albums, overlooked tracks of the 2000’s, new Australian
Read morePinocchio with no strings attached: Podcast
There are no strings attached when Colin “The Newsman” meets Pinocchio and his friends from the Wonderland Theatre. Check out the podcast and book your tickets for Pinocchio at the Phoenix Theatre in Elwood.
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