Film review: RED DOG: TRUE BLUE, from ‘Built For Speed’

Red Dog was one of recent Australian cinema’s greatest success stories, an unassuming and charming family film that ended up being a box office hit.  Red Dog proved (as we should have already known) that films about Australia and our national culture will find an audience.  With that film’s success a sequel was inevitable.  While unlikely to become as iconic

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‘Built For Speed’ Playlist, Friday 6th January 2017

Built for Speed – 6th January 2017 QUEEN – Let me entertain you. SASKWATCH – I get lonely. (Aus) HALFWAY – Dropout. (Aus) TEETH AND TONGUE – Cupcake. (Aus) DAVID BOWIE – Moonage Daydream. STATUS QUO – Rockin’ all over the world. GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot the dog. THE REPLACEMENTS – Little mascara. TOM WAITS – Hang down your head.

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Film review: GIMME DANGER, from ‘Built For Speed’

Gimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s sensational documentary about the real godfathers of punk The Stooges. With Iggy pop’s distinctive voice infusing the film as a simultaneous interviewee and narrator, Gimme Danger reveals the band’s tumultuous birth in late 60’s Detroit, their flirtation with stardom in the early 70’s, their battles with critical and record company indifference and their descent into

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 6th January 2017

Happy New Year everyone.  For ‘Built For Speed’s’ first show of 2017 we take a look at the sequel to one of Australia’s most successful films, Red Dog with Red Dog:True Blue.  We also let you know whether Why Him?, which stars James Franco and Bryan Cranston,  is actually funny or yet another Hollywood comedy dud.  With the Oscars approaching we begin

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Film review: ALLIED, from ‘Built For Speed’

Allied is a slow-moving but effective World War 2 spy drama.  The film stars Brad Pitt and Marion Cotilliard in a relationship that inevitably draws comparisons with Mr and Mrs Smith.  Pitt plays Canadian Air Force group captain Max Vatan (Pitt) who teams up with French resistance operative Maryanne (Marion Cotillard) in Casablanca in 1942 to assassinate a Nazi ambassador. 

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Film review: UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS, from ‘Built For Speed’

Believe it or not there’s another Underworld film about to hit our cinemas.  Audiences would be forgiven for thinking these outrageously silly, borderline unwatchable S and M vampire fantasies had been consigned to the Golden Raspberry hall of fame but apparently there’s enough fan interest to warrant a fifth film in this ‘vampires versus werewolves’ saga, namely Underworld: Blood Wars.

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