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: ‘NOUVELLE VAGUE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
French auteur Jean Luc Godard’s films are not for all tastes. His approach and subjects vary wildly, some of his movies are undoubtedly revolutionary, some feel like intriguing yet pretentious film school experiments while political works like Sympathy For The Devil, which features the Rolling Stones, contains some insufferable polemic hectoring. Godard no doubt enjoyed infuriating some viewers but no
Film review: ‘HAMNET’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet is a Shakespeare biopic of sorts that, on one level explores the story behind the Bard’s writing of Hamlet, possibly the most famous work of English literature but also deliberately displaces Shakespeare to the sidelines to examine the plight of his wife Agnes. Rather than retelling a famous person’s story, this is a stark, striking looking, but
Film review: ‘THE CHORAL’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The charming, erudite but undercooked British film The Choral from director Nicholas Hytner and playwright Alan Bennett, is part of that subgenre of films in which music is a redemptive and healing force for a community. Like Brassed Off, the recent My Brother’s Band and The Commitments, The Choral features a group of average folks uniting and transcending their lives
Film review: ‘SENTIMENTAL VALUE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Norwegian film Sentimental Value from director Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) was one of the most lauded movies of 2025. This insightful, superbly acted story of family conflict, artistic tension and the toxic effect of long held bitterness mostly deserves the accolades although it will tend to appeal to particular filmgoers. Renata Reinsve (who starred in The
Film review: ‘THE HISTORY OF SOUND’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The History of sound is an evocatively shot, wonderfully acted but slow-moving story of musical anthropology, grief, fragile identity and queer romance. Paul Mescal stars as Lionel Worthing, a young man from a dirt-poor farm in Kentucky who, as a musical prodigy, wins a scholarship to a Boston conservatory. There, in 1917, he meets musician David White (Josh O’ Connor)
Film review: ‘AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Avatar film franchise, which depicts the battle between the giant blue indigenous Na’vi people of the planet Pandora and us greedy humans, holds the number one and three positions on the list of highest grossing films of all time. This is a remarkable feat that seems due to a combination of a novel science fiction concept (in this case