This week on Built For Speed we are ecstatic to have as our special guest a legend of the Australian music scene Billy Pinnell. We’ll discuss Billy’s long and illustrious radio career, his favourite music and much more. We also take a look at two new release films, giant robot adventure Pacific Rim and buddy cop comedy The Heat starring
Read moreIn the 1990’s, comedy/dramas about the lure of celebrity and the superficiality of reality TV were a potent commentary on society’s spiritual emptiness. Fast forward two decades, however, and reality TV as a source of satire and social comment has become passé. Consequently, Italian Big Brother satire Reality feels, despite the excellent craftsmanship of Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone, strangely outdated.
Read moreEnigmatic director Terence Malick is about to divide audiences once again with his latest perplexing cinematic tone poem To the Wonder. Post-film arguments will rage over whether this movie is a profound statement of existential malaise, decaying faith and suburban alienation or just pretentious drivel? Although Malick has ditched the dinosaurs in To the Wonder, he has managed to create
Read moreThe Lone Ranger, which began as radio serial in 1933, was a western adventure where the noble white hero, in an optimistically equitable pairing with a native American, triumphed over sweaty fiends in the old west. Given the source material, it was unlikely, the new cinematic version of The Lone Ranger starring Armie Hammer as the titular hero and Johnny
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we look at two very different cinema releases: quirky western adventure The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and the latest perplexing opus from Terrence Malick, To the Wonder. We also have plenty of great new music with Nordic metal from Kvelertak and bizarro sci fi sounds from Karl Bartos. There’s also plenty of our
Read moreThe Look of Love, the latest film for British director Michael Winterbottom, is not a biopic of Burt Bacharach or Dusty Springfield although the spirit of romantic 60’s cool they epitomised infuses this film. The Look of Love is like a British answer to The People vs. Larry Flynt as it depicts the career and personal travails of porn king
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