This Friday on Built For Speed we play cover versions (and a few lesser known original versions) of some of our favourite songs. There’ll be tracks from Placebo, The Pixies, You Am I and many more. We also take a look at Ang Lee’s adaptation of the best selling novel Life of Pi. On a slightly different note we review low
Read moreAdaptations of massively popular contemporary novels are dubious prospects as evidenced by the dreary film version of The Da Vinci Code. So it was with some trepidation I settled in for Ang Lee’s movie version of Yann Martel’s biblically themed adventure novel Life of Pi. I hadn’t read the novel but from the trailer I feared its story of one
Read more2012 may be drawing to a close but – assuming the Mayans are wrong – there’s still plenty happening in the world of movies, music and popular culture and Built For Speed is the place to find out about it. Over the next month we’ll be reviewing the latest film for cinema legend Clint Eastwood, Trouble with the Curve, the adaptation
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