Film review: VAMPIRE ACADEMY, from Built For Speed

Young adult literature has recently become the scourge of film critics with horrendous adaptations of Stephanie Myers’ Twilight series and The Host as well as the lamentable big screen versions of Cassandra Clare’s first Mortal Instruments fable.  Despite fleeting moments of genuine entertainment and deliberate amusement, Vampire Academy maintains the dismal standard. Vampire Academy revolves around Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch)

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Film review: ALL IS LOST, from Built For Speed

Existential drama All Is Lost sees sole cast member Robert Redford play an unnamed yachtsman battling the elements and the threat of starvation and dehydration on a sinking yacht in the Indian Ocean.  As the story of a marooned person struggling for survival, the film evokes comparisons with Gravity and Life of Pi but this is a far more restrained,

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Film review: GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA, from Built For Speed

Gore Vidal, who died in 2012, was an acclaimed and highly provocative playwright, novelist, essayist occasional political candidate and famed social and political commentator. The documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia traces Vidal’s life from privileged boyhood as a US Senator’s son, to his emergence as a prominent student intellectual, his military service during the Second World War,

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Film review: THE WIND RISES, from Built For Speed

Best known in this country for the vivid animated fantasy films Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, Japanese writer-director Hayao Miyazaki brings us what is arguably his most mature, moving and contemplative film,  The Wind Rises.  This is reportedly Miyazaki’s last film and with its artistically inspired and introspective protagonist and typical Miyazaki themes such as pacifism, environmental devastation, the role

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SECA CRICKET GRAND FINAL BROADCAST ALL WEEKEND

The big dance is here and from noon on Saturday 22nd March you can hear the South East Cricket Association Longmuir Shield Grand Final live “community radio” style on Southern FM, on the tranny, on the internet (via the Southern FM website) or on your phone or other electronic device via the tunein.com radio app. Our Southern Sport commentary team

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 21st March 2014

This week on Built For Speed we take a look at, believe it or not, an historical, romantic, disaster, action movie in Pompeii.  We also review Robert Redford’s latest film, the somewhat subtler All is Lost.  There’s many fine tunes with a selection of Built For Speed favourites from across the last two decades as well as brand new tracks from

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