Hi to all our listeners. We hope you enjoyed the ‘Built For Speed End of Year Spectacular’. In case, you missed it, there’s a repeat this Friday 4th Jan from 8-10pm. Here are CJ and Nick’s picks for best, worst, most overrated and underrated films of 2018. CJ Best Movies for 2018 My Generation American Animals Bohemian Rhapsody Three Billboards
Read moreBased on the combined biographies of author Nic Sheff and his father David, Beautiful Boy potently depicts Nick’s descent into methamphetamine addiction. Rising star Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Ladybird) plays Nic, an intelligent aspiring writer who, as a teenager, is still trying to come to terms with his father David’s (Steve Carell) break-up with his mother Vicki
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Kevin Johnson gave rock ‘n’ roll the best years of his life… and he’s now doing the Political Shuffle. Kevin spoke to Colin Tyrus on A Newsman and his Music.
Read moreAmerican Animals is a heist film with a difference. As the opening titles insist, it’s not based on a true story, it is true and almost qualifies as a docudrama as the real people involved periodically talk about the case. The film concerns a 2004 robbery in which four college students plotted to steal rare and extremely valuable books from
Read moreThe idea of human bodies being enhanced with technology has been a frequent sci-fi theme for decades with Robocop and The Six Million Dollar Man just two examples. Aussie writer director Leigh Whannell explores this theme in the futuristic action flick Upgrade but ads a sniff of the violent horror for which he became renowned with the disgusting Saw franchise.
Read moreA film that focuses on the period in which Mary Shelly wrote her sci-fi horror classic Frankenstein should be a thrilling prospect for anyone with a literary bent but director and co-writer Haifaa al-Mansour has transformed the biopic, Mary Shelley, into a slightly steamy, mildly gothic romance between two Derek Zoolander-approved really really good-looking people. Elle Fanning plays Mary Wollstonecraft
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