BUILT FOR SPEED: PLAYLIST, FRI 17TH FEB 2012 1. JOAN JETT – Love is all around. 2. AERIAL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – Bright lit blue sky. 3. LUCINDA WILLIAMS – Buttercup. 4. MY MORNING JACKET – One big holiday. 5. DRIVE BY TRUCKERS – Look out
Read moreFollowing Hugo, The Artist is the Second film this Oscar season to revel in nostalgia for the silent movie era. The Artist doesn’t just talk about silent film as a lost art, however, it is itself a silent film shot in black and white in the pre-war square film ratio with subtitled dialogue and virtually no on-screen sound except for
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED: PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2012 1. THE CLOUDS – Here now. 2. BLOOD RED SHOES – It’s getting boring by the sea 3. WILD FLAG – Romance. 4. JONATHON WILSON – The way I feel. 5. PINK FLOYD – Another brick in the wall. 6. THE POGUES – Body of an American. 7. JOHN FOGARTY – Fortunate
Read moreIt seems to be the year for biopics of controversial conservative icons, first it was Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, now it’s infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leo Di Caprio) in the rather uninventively titled J. Edgar. The film portrays most of the major events in Hoover’s professional life including the search for Charles Lindbergh’s baby, his pursuit
Read moreIt’s time once again for Built for Speed’s classic album retrospective and this month its the debut album by guitar god Jimi Hendrix and his band the Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced”. An iconic figure of a slightly different ilk is J. Edgar Hoover and this week we review the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic J. Edgar. We also review Sam
Read moreYou know the drill with sci/fi horror these days: a disparate group of pretty young adults are forced to stop whining and unite to battle a seemingly indestructible alien menace. You can clothe it in military fetishism ala Battle: Los Angeles or Inner city housing estate culture as in Attack the Block but it’s still the same film. The Darkest
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