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: ‘KINDS OF KINDNESS’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Like David Lynch in the 80’s and 90’s, Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos is bringing dark, surreal cinema to a mainstream audience. Some, however, feel his films are more about superficial weirdness and shock value than substance. Those calls might become a little louder with his latest piece of misanthropic mayhem the drama/ horror/ comedy triptych, Kinds of Kindness. While
Film review: ‘FLY ME TO THE MOON’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The fake moon landing conspiracy has been a fertile myth for many years and even inspired a decent thriller in 1977’s fake Mars landing romp, Capricorn One. Now, the amiable, old fashioned and slightly clunky Fly Me to the Moon, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, attempts, with middling success, to build a rom-com and a good old American propaganda
Film review: ‘MIDNIGHT OIL: THE HARDEST LINE’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Midnight Oil were always an intriguing mix of contradictions. They were almost as much an activist entity as a band. Their sound was an unusual mix of disparate genres such as hard rock, punk, surf music and prog and was sufficiently diverse that just about anyone would like at least some of their repertoire even if they recoiled at other
Film review: ‘THE BIKERIDERS’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Based on the 1968 book by photojournalist Danny Lyon, Jeff Nichols’ (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special and Loving) The Bikeriders tracks the fortunes of the fictitious Vandals Motor Cycle Club from the mid-60s to the early 70’s. The Vandals, who are based on the Outlaws Motorcycle Club with whom Lyon was briefly a member, represent the rough, raucous but free-spirited
Film review: ‘The Beast’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Loosely inspired by Henry James’ novella The Beast In The Jungle, the beguiling, occasionally disturbing, sometimes funny and at times brain boggling French-Canadian science fiction film, The Beast sits beside Slaughterhouse Five and Cloud Atlas in the ‘fascinating head scratcher’ sub-genre. This is one of those films where characters shift through different realities appearing at different times and in different
Film review: ‘Inside Out 2’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Has it really been nine years since the first wonderful Inside Out film so expertly put us through the emotional wringer? That movie immediately joined the ranks of Pixar classics with its clever, exuberant and extremely moving tale of eleven-year-old girl Riley trying to cope with change and the way her emotions Joy, Anger, Aadness etc. – who were depicted