Film review: BAD NEIGHBOURS, from Built For Speed

Bad Neighbours seems to have been spawned by a vaguely interesting idea, to mix Animal House-style frat boy comedy with the rambling, 30-something relationship comedy of Judd Apatow.  Unfortunately, Bad Neighbours takes the worst aspects of both, namely the crass, juvenile gags of the frat boy movie and the unfocused momentum-free narrative of a Judd Apatow film to create a

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Film review: FADING GIGOLO, from Built For Speed

Fading Gigolo is the Woody Allen film you have when you don’t have a Woody Allen film.  Apart from an appearance by Woody himself, the film features a romanticised upscale New York setting, Jewish humour and cultural insights and jaunty jazz music all built around a quirky yet moving romance.  With its low-budget look and heavily filtered cinematography by Marco

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Film review: YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL, from Built For Speed

Despite their serious artistic intentions Francois Ozon’s films, which often depict the sexual awakening of young women, can’t help but titillate the rain coat brigade.  That will probably be the case with his latest film Young and Beautiful but it doesn’t diminish the fact that this is a sensitively acted, attractively shot exploration of the impact on a family of

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Songs of Hope tomorrow 18 May

Songs of Hope tomorrow 18 May 2014 will be the usual two hours of great Christian praise and worship music. It will include the following features: 7:10 am Daily Bread devotion – 2min 7:30 am Chris Witts – topic “Hatred” – 5 min 8:30 am Christian Music legend – Rich Mullins – 5 min 8:45 am Christians who made a

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 16th May 2014

This week on Built For Speed there’s a feast on films to discuss with two related works in Francois Ozon’s Young and Beautiful and John Tuturro’s Fading Gigolo.  We also look at the unlikely and mostly unwelcome pairing of Seth Rogen and Zac Efron in Bad Neighbours.  There’s plenty of fine music with tracks from the latest Sebadoh album Defend

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