A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is the impressive feature-length directorial debut for Iranian/ American film maker Ana Lily Amirpour. This creepy, atmospheric genre mash-up references film noir, modern Iranian cinema, westerns, feminism and romance in its strange story of a female vampire preying on victims in the fictitious Iranian industrial town of Bad City. Sheila Vand stars as
Read moreOn this Boxing Day edition of ‘Built For Speed’ we play more of our favourite tracks from 2014 as well as some classics and even a few Christmas songs. We also review Iranian/ American vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the latest Night At the Museum film Secret of the Tomb and animated action adventure Big Hero
Read moreA Thousand Times Good Night explores the emotional toll wrought on families when career commitment becomes obsession. Juliette Binoche plays Rebecca a highly respected war-zone photographer who has returned to her family in Ireland after narrowly avoiding death during a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Desperate to re-establish her family life with husband Marcus (Nikolai Coster-Waldau) and rapidly growing daughters Steph
Read moreLet’s Be Cops is a major source of disappointment. It had most of the credentials for a mega turkey: a buddy cop piss-take storyline and a Wayans a in a lead role but astonishingly the film exceeds all expectations by being mediocre. It’s probably because Lets Be Cops borrows so liberally from other films such as Beverley Hills Cop, Stripes
Read moreLove, Rosie at first seems to be just another cute, fluffy British (or more accurately Irish) rom-com full of unrealistically pretty people enjoying idealised twenty-something lifestyles. As we have seen, though, with Studio Canal films such as the similarly named Love, Actually, these types of movies have a sneaky way of seducing audiences with their romantic fantasy world. This film
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we review Ridley Scott’s latest film, biblical epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings. We also take a look at Jason Reitman’s latest examination of modern day spiritual emptiness in Men, Women and Children. There’s plenty of fine music including “Built For Speed” favourites from Radio Birdman and You Am I and new tracks from the likes of
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