What’s on Built for Speed: Friday 3rd February 2012

This week on Built for Speed we review gen x drama Young Adult and play a selection of classic 90’s music from the film’s soundtrack.  We also review fantasy adventure Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and sci fi action flick The Darkest Hour.  There’s plenty of great music including selections from Uncut Magazine’s best of 2011 and Wild Flag which features members

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Film review: HUGO from Built for Speed

Martin Scorsese’s latest film Hugo is a weird mix of tween romance, gadget film, Oliver style orphan drama, slapstick comedy, cinema nostalgia and of course (being a Scorsese film) a redemption story.  This incongruous mix could have been a huge mess (some parts certainly fail to fire) but with Scorsese’s sure hand it holds together and offers something for kids

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Film review: THE DESCENDANTS from Built for Speed

The Descendants is the latest film for writer/director Alexander Payne who brought us the excellent Sideways back in 2004.  Like Sideways, The Descendants combines painful self-reflection, male mid-life crisis and quirky comedy for a slightly odd but engrossing view of middle class angst.  With The Descendants, Payne also adds potent family drama and a moving story of loss. Despite a

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Film review: TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY from Built for Speed

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which is directed by Let the Right One In’s Thomas Alfredson is the second adaptation of the famed John Le Carre spy thriller; it was previously turned into a TV mini-series in 1979.  This film certainly has impressive credentials: it’s adapted from an acclaimed novel and features a stellar cast including Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and

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Film review: WAR HORSE from Built for Speed

Stephen Spielberg’s old fashioned WW1 epic War Horse is at times thrilling and moving but too often falls victim to Spielberg’s cheesy filmmaking style. Initially set in a John Ford approved scenic English valley, the film sees young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) the son of a turnip farmer dedicating himself to raising a thoroughbred horse named Joey. When the farm falters

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