What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 8th January 2021

This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two of the big recent cinema releases: Wonder Woman: 1984 and Australian crime drama The Dry which stars Eric Bana.  We’ll also have some more of the best tracks of 2020 as well as classic and indie rock favourites from across the decades.  Don’t forget our round-up of TV

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Film review: ‘WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The cinema has handled the topic of mental illness with vastly differing degrees of accuracy and sensitivity.  Films like Silver Linings Playbook have intelligently captured the complexities of mental illness and the way in which it impacts on sufferer’s loved ones while movies like Split have alarmingly equated mental illness with something monstrous.  Words on Bathroom Walls, which stars Lean

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Film review: ‘MANK’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

David Fincher’s latest film Mank may be a little perplexing for those who don’t have an abiding love of movies, particularly the film often considered Hollywood’s finest, Citizen Kane.  Mank depicts the period in the 1930’s in which renowned screenwriter and according to the film, gambling-addicted drunk, Herman J Mankiewicz aka Mank (Gary Oldman) toiled on the script for Kane

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 4th December 2020

With Christmas hurtling ominously toward us, “Built For Speed’ will, this Friday, review the latest addition to that oddball cinema sub-genre the Christmas movie with comedy/ drama ‘Happiest Season’ starring Kristen Stewart. We’ll also have a feast of great music for you with more terrific tracks that have emerged in 2020, some of the favourites from our ‘best of’ lists

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Film review: ‘TENET’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

After the disappointment of his last sci-fi outing, the ambitious but confusing, inert and miscast Interstellar, Christopher Nolan returns with a film as gargantuan in scope, complexity, running time and likelihood of dividing audiences in Tenet. It seems Nolan’s quest with this film was to make the most confusing time travel movie ever.  Apparently, the Spierig brothers’ Predestination, where characters

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