On this Boxing Day edition of ‘Built For Speed’ we play more of our favourite tracks from 2014 as well as some classics and even a few Christmas songs. We also review Iranian/ American vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the latest Night At the Museum film Secret of the Tomb and animated action adventure Big Hero
Read moreA Thousand Times Good Night explores the emotional toll wrought on families when career commitment becomes obsession. Juliette Binoche plays Rebecca a highly respected war-zone photographer who has returned to her family in Ireland after narrowly avoiding death during a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Desperate to re-establish her family life with husband Marcus (Nikolai Coster-Waldau) and rapidly growing daughters Steph
Read moreLove, Rosie at first seems to be just another cute, fluffy British (or more accurately Irish) rom-com full of unrealistically pretty people enjoying idealised twenty-something lifestyles. As we have seen, though, with Studio Canal films such as the similarly named Love, Actually, these types of movies have a sneaky way of seducing audiences with their romantic fantasy world. This film
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we review Ridley Scott’s latest film, biblical epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings. We also take a look at Jason Reitman’s latest examination of modern day spiritual emptiness in Men, Women and Children. There’s plenty of fine music including “Built For Speed” favourites from Radio Birdman and You Am I and new tracks from the likes of
Read moreFrom Day of the Locust’s nightmarish vision of a perverse and corrupt Hollywood to Mulholland Drive’s dream of stardom turned nightmare, many films have explored the bizarre and disturbing underbelly of Hollywood. David Cronenberg’s latest film, Maps To The Stars explores this world through the director’s typically bizarre and unsettling vision. In Cronenberg’s nihilistic take on tinsel town, Hollywood is
Read morePride, which explores the hitherto unlikely partnership of striking coal miners and the gay rights movement in 1980’s Britain, is a highly enjoyable nineties-style feel-good British working class comedy/drama in the vein of The full Monty, Brassed Off and Billy Elliot. The film returns us to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain of the mid-80’s where economic rationalist policies were putting the squeeze
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