The Academy Awards will be held this Sunday in the US and this Friday night ‘Built For Speed’ will give their annual Nostradamus-like predictions of all the winners. We’ll also talk about a few controversial Oscar moments from over the years. Still on movies, we’ll review British comedy/ drama, What We Did on Our Holidays and Sci-Fi behemoth Jupiters Rising. There’s
Read moreThe title of the film Selma refers to the Alabama town in which Martin Luther King Jr organised marches to protest the obstruction of voting rights for black Americans in the south. As anyone familiar with recent American history will recall, one of these protests turned hideously violent when state troopers, police under the command of Sheriff Jim Clark and
Read moreKickass and X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughan’s latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service is a slick, inventive, action-packed but hollow pastiche of British spy movies. Drawing on the Bond films, the 1960’s TV show The Avengers and Men in Black, the film concerns a secret organisation of tweed-coated gentlemen spies known as The Kingsman who operate outside the reach
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we have a look at the most recent Oscar contender released in our cinemas, the dramatization of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s march through Alabama in Selma. We also review Colin Firth’s new role in believe it or not an action/comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service. There’s plenty of fine music from Australia and overseas
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist Friday 30th January 2015 THE WALKMEN – Angela surf city. THE GO TEAM – Buy nothing day. TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. QUEEN – Modern times rock’n’roll. KENNY ROGERS – The Gambler. ACE FREHLEY – Back in the New York groove. SUZI QUATRO – Rock hard. SUN GOD REPLICA – Who’s gonna die. (Aus)
Read moreThe riveting true-crime drama Foxcatcher explores the strange and catastrophic relationship between champion American wrestling brothers Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and their disturbed patron, du Pont chemical company head John du Pont (Steve Carrell). Mark Schultz won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the LA Olympics in ’84 but neither lucrative endorsements nor regular income
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