What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 30th December 2016

After the orgasmic excesses of the ‘Built For Speed’ Best of 2016 spectacular, it’s time to see the year out with an eclectic selection of music including hard rocking Aussie classics, power pop legends, some more of the best of 2016 and a tribute to the great musicians who sadly left us this year.  We’ll also review new cinema releases

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Film review: THE ACCOUNTANT, from ‘Built for Speed’

How do you stop a film about an accountant being a snoozefest? How about making him a superhuman killing machine.  That is the dubious premise behind Gavin O’Connor’s moderately exciting, often confusing and occasionally silly hitman thriller The Accountant. Ben Affleck stars as the eponymous number and skull cruncher Christian Wolff a savant maths genius whose autism saw him persecuted

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Film review: OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY, from ‘Built for Speed’

The raunch comedy is really just a more obscene and cynical update of the 80’s party animal comedy.  For evidence look no further than Office Christmas Party, a messy, occasionally amusing but mostly predictable excuse for juvenile comedy that features the party animal movie staples: nerds, prostitutes, comical pimps, people going nuts on coke, a laid back sensible everyman central character and ultimately an

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Film review: DR. STRANGE, from ‘Built for Speed’

Apparently determined to bring us a cinema incarnation of every character that has ever graced their pages, Marvel Comics now present Dr Strange. The good doctor is one of the lesser known Marvel heroes – at least for the average cinema goer – but as his powers are based on manipulation of the metaphysical world rather than brute strength, he’s

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 16th December 2016

Christmas is almost upon us and as renowned purveyors of festive cheer, ‘Built For Speed’ will, this week , treat listeners to some of our favourite Christmas songs. They may not be the ones you’ll hear on carols nights or on mind-numbing repeat at your supermarket but they’re guaranteed to do what Christmas music should do and that’s rock.  We’ll also play

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