Film review: PASSENGERS, from ‘Built For Speed’

We can almost hear the boardroom meeting: “that Titanic made a bundle and so did that Gravity let’s mash them together, throw in a couple of Hollywood’s hottest stars and it’s new Ferraris all round”. The result is Passengers a sci-fi/ adventure/ romance that should have been a moving and thrilling space adventure but winds up being surprisingly tepid. Chris

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Film review: JOY from ‘Built For Speed’

Time once again to enter the wonderfully off-kilter but seeringly insightful alternate reality of David O Russell’s films. His two previous offerings Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle were an intoxicating mix of comedy, drama and romance that provided some of the best cinema entertainment of recent years. With those films Russell established an ensemble of actors including Robert de

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 21st November 2014

This week on “Built For Speed” we take a look at the latest film in the blockbuster teen dystopia franchise The Hunger Games with Mocking jay Part 1. We also review David Cronenberg’s creepy new drama about the seedy underbelly of Hollywood, Maps to the Stars.  There’s plenty of great new music from the likes of Ty Segall and Tweedy

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