The Oscars ceremony happens in the US this Sunday and screens here on Monday but more importantly ‘Built For Speed’ will reveal their Nostradamus-like predictions for each of the major categories on the show this Friday. We’ll also tell you all about The Libertines gig at the Forum on Wednesday night and play a few of the tracks that featured
Read moreThis Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we divert from the prestigious Oscar nominee films to take a look at a Hollywood comedy in ‘Game Night’ which stars Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman. There’ll be a feast of great music with more of our all-time favourite vocalists, new Aussie tracks, classic rock and indie tunes from across the decades. Don’t forget
Read moreDarkest Hour, the latest film for Atonement director Joe Wright is the second Winston Churchill biopic and the third Dunkirk-related film in the last 12 months. This film focuses on Churchill’s tumultuous appointment as Prime Minister, his struggle with his war cabinet and his personal demons in deciding Britain’s course as Europe succumbs to Hitler. Gary oldman, who looks as
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the latest Marvel cinema adaptation, ‘Black Panther’. We’ll also tell you all about Oscar hopeful ‘Ladybird’, which marks the directorial debut for Greta Gerwig. CJ and Dr Nick will deliver a full wrap-up of the Father John Misty gig from last Friday at the Forum. We’ll play some Father
Read moreLike a more lyrical, more physically and metaphorically sunlit Brokeback Mountain, Call Me By Your Name ,which is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Aciman, is a homoerotic tale bathed in Mediterranean summer heat and high culture. Young up and comer Timothee Chalamet, who also co-stars in the Greta Gerwig’s excellent directorial debut Ladybird, stars as
Read moreSteven Spielberg’s The Post is part of that cinematic sub-genre, the investigative journalism film, an auspicious club that contains Spotlight, Zodiac and at its pinnacle, Alan J Pakula’s Watergate classic, All The Presidents Men. The Post almost seems like an attempt at a prequel to that film as it details the explosive story of the Washington Post’s quest in 1971
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