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Read moreFilm review: CHURCHILL: by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The film Churchill often feels as if director Johnathon Teplitzky and writer Alex von Tunzelmann have taken The King’s Speech and replaced King George the Sixth with Winston Churchill. Both films are about a British leader confronting self-doubt and the crushing responsibility to their people in the dark days of the Second World War. Churchill is not a comprehensive biopic
Read moreFilm review: BAYWATCH: by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
We shouldn’t expect much from a Baywatch cinema adaptation and this film certainly lives down to expectations. Often the problem with movies based on TV shows is that the filmmakers try to stuff the TV show’s concept into a generic action comedy template and in the process lose the show’s essence and appeal. It’s the same deal here except that,
Read moreFilm review: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN: by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
1979 was a tumultuous year particularly in the US where the Iran hostage saga, an energy crises and economic and social fragmentation severely dented the nation’s sense of supremacy and led to serious lack of confidence in the political system and the values that had driven the nation since its founding; something upon which Ronald Reagan and corporate America later
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 7th July 2017
It’s a movie fest this week on ‘Built For Speed’ as we take a look at two school holiday offerings ‘Despicable Me 3’ and ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’ and for an older audience we review drama ‘The Promise’. There’s also plenty of great music with new tracks from Babaganouj and Pink Tiles, classics from decades past
Read moreFrank Crean – podcast
Frank Crean was a practising Christian politician in Australia. Listen to his story.
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