Built for Speed
Program: Built for Speed
Broadcast time: Every Friday night 8pm – 10pm
Presenters: Nick, CJ and Jimbo.
Are you a fan of rock, both alternative and classic?
Want to know whether that cinematic blockbuster or art house flick you’ve heard about is worth your time and your hard-earned cash?
Looking for some questionable comedy and pop-cultural commentary?
Then you need to listen to Built for Speed on 88.3 Southern FM.
Built for Speed presenters CJ, Jimbo and Nick have been blasting the Southern suburbs with their favourite music and totally unbiased film reviews every Friday night at 8pm for nearly 16 years.
Whether it’s established bands or music virtually no-one’s heard about, we’ll bring it you if we think it’s any good. We’re proud to say we were one of the first shows playing artists like Wilco, The Vines and MGMT.
Our film tastes are equally eclectic so if you’re a fan of extreme action, sci-fi, genteel period dramas or some strange combination of these we’ll let you know what’s worth seeing.
We also have the occasional guest drop by and in the past have enjoyed a chat with Mick Molloy, actor Tony Martin, film industry insiders and numerous up-coming bands.
Unlike most programs on the commercial stations we take song requests and every so often tantalise our learned audience with CJ’s rock quiz. So tune in this Friday and gorge yourself on the pop-cultural triple cheese burger that is “Built for Speed”.
Posts for Built for Speed:
Film review: ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Masters Of The Universe loosely remakes the very dicey 1987 Dolph Lundgren film as a Thor Ragnarok-style pisstaking action/ fantasy/ comedy. Within the scope of its juvenile ambition this film works occasionally but not often enough. Masters follows the adventures of Adam Glenn (Nicholas Galitzine) aka He-Man a refugee from the planet Eternia which has been taken over by the
Film review: ‘THE CHRISTOPHERS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
This year we’ve seen two iconic American directors create films completely unlike anything else in their back catalogue. We had Jim Jarmusch’s subtle but insightfully human Mother, Father, Sister, Brother which thankfully avoided any of his characteristic attempts at ironic cool and now we have Steven Soderbergh’s very British The Christopher’s which is about as far as we could get
Film review: ‘HOKUM’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Don’t be put off by the title, Hokum is a superbly creepy, atmospheric and inventive supernatural horror film that, without being too derivative, evokes classics such as The Shining. While this film employs familiar haunted house or in this case haunted hotel tropes, its writer director Damian McCarthy plays with these to craft a skin crawling experience that impressively promotes
Film review: ‘WOLFRAM’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Warwick Thornton is arguably Australia’s finest contemporary film director. With works such as Sampson and Delilah and Sweet Country he has crafted unflinching, gritty, yet poetic and masterfully constructed films celebrating First Nations Peoples while laying bare the often brutal prejudice inflicted on them. His latest film, Wolfram is a sequel of sorts to Sweet Country as Philomac (this time
Film review: ‘THE SHEEP DETECTIVES’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Sheep Detectives is a very sweet, charming, family friendly mix of whodunit and anthropomorphised (CGI) animal comedy. Evoking Babe, Knives Out and Toy Story it would be hard for this film to go wrong and it doesn’t. Set in an idealised version of the English countryside in the village of Denbrook, the film stars Hugh Jackman as benevolent sheep
Film review: ‘OBSESSION’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The intense, atmospheric and darkly comic psychological/ supernatural thriller Obsession falls into the ‘careful what you wish for’ film subgenre. Like a much more sinister and violent Twilight Zone episode, the film sees lovelorn Bear (Michael Johnston) desperate for romance with his work colleague Nikki (Inde Navarrette). While at a shop selling crystals and other faith healing knicknacks, Bear, on