With Ted, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has stitched together the rom com and the “man child” genres for a mostly ridiculous, often offensive and occasionally funny film. There has been a spate of man-child films in recent years – just think of anything with Adam Sandler – but Ted takes the man-child concept to another level. John (Mark Wahlberg)
Read moreAs anyone who has attended the Big Day Out or even the overseas events like Glastonbury would attest, the outdoor music festival is a bizarre world unto itself: a chaotic collision of musical styles, seething crowds, freaky looking punters, disgusting food and more often than not, mud. You Instead, which was filmed amid Scotland’s T in the Park festival, perfectly
Read moreThis week on Built for Speed we review the depraved Teddy Bear comedy Ted and Scottish music festival romance You Instead. We may even have a look at the Katy Perry “documentary” Part of Me. There’s also a huge selection of fine music, new and old, including some appropriately spooky Friday the 13th tracks and something from that sprightly, young, up and coming band
Read moreFor their latest film, The Three Stooges, the Farrelly Brothers have taken on the ominous task of reinventing the comedy legends for the present day. Is it a triumph or a dud? Find out by clicking the podcast [below] of Built For Speed’s review.
Read moreCabin in the Woods takes the Scream-style post-modern horror film satire to a bizarre and thrilling new level. The film slyly begins as a stereotypical teen horror film with a group of college students (including Aussie Chris Hemsworth) heading to a creepy old cabin in an isolated forest hoping for a weekend of drugs and sex. As any horror fan
Read moreAnotn Chekhov’s The Duel is based on the author’s 1891 novella of the same name which sets a seething tale of infidelity, passionate conflict, intellectual debate and decaying society in the deceptively sedate world of a seaside resort in the Caucasus in 19th century Russia. The film centres on Laevsky (Andrew Scott) an angry drunken layabout and self- proclaimed intellectual who’s
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