What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 24th February 2017

The Academy Awards descend on us once again and this week ‘Built For Speed’ gives you a full preview and like the late Johnny Carson’s ‘Great Carnac’ we’ll deliver our earth shattering predictions of who will win.  We’ll also take a look at Best Picture nominee Hidden Figures and Best Foreign Language film nominee, Toni Erdmann.  There’s a feast of great

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 10th February 2017

It’s a huge show this week on ‘Built For Speed’ as we take a look at Oscar contender and Golden Globe winning film ‘Moonlight’.  We also review Boston bombing drama ‘Patriots Day’.  CJ will tell us all about the recent 80’s extravaganza gig featuring Simple Minds and The B-52’s.  There’ll be the usual array of fine tunes with some brutal Aussies, some

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 3rd February 2017

After our big all-Aussie special last week, it’s back to a more traditional ‘Built For Speed’ with classic tracks and new releases from across the globe as well as Australia.  On the movie front we take a look at Split the controversial new thriller from Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan and Ben Affleck’s gangster drama Live by Night.  We’ll

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Film review: PERFECT STRANGERS, from ‘Built For Speed’

From Luis Bunuel’s dark classic Exterminating Angel to the raucous Steve Carrell comedy Dinner For Schmucks, the hellish dinner party scenario is familiar to cinema audiences. Through some inventive twists and a plot device that plugs straight into contemporary culture, the smart, acerbic Italian Film Perfect Strangers (which screened at the 2016 Lavazza Italian Film Festival and was a box

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Film review: COLLATERAL BEAUTY, from ‘Built For Speed’

An odd mix of Capra-esque redemption story and A Christmas Carol, Collateral Beauty is a tear-jerker with a touch of screwball comedy that puts audiences in an uneasy tug of war between cheesiness and genuine emotion. Many viewers will justifiably recoil from what might be termed its Oprah Network morality but some will find undeniably affecting moments in this film.

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Film review: LION, from ‘Built For Speed’

As a story of an Indian child victim of poverty desperately trying to recover a life taken from him, Lion will elicit immediate comparisons with Slumdog Millionaire. Lion, which is a true story, however, packs an even bigger emotional punch. The film reveals how, in 1986, five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) and his teenage brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate) became separated at

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