Film review: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, from Built For Speed

The first Hobbit film, An Unexpected Journey was a loud, ugly overlong mess full of ridiculous dwarf sing-a-longs, tedious computer-generated battle sequences and interminable scenes of dwarves traipsing through the forest.  It also featured characters suspiciously shoehorned into the story from other sources such as The Lord of the Rings.  Lacking subtlety, emotional depth and the simple, pastoral charm of

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 3rd January 2014

Happy New Year “Built For Speed” listeners.  There’s no respite from the “Built For Speed” machine as we charge through Summer with more fine music, film reviews and pop cultural ramblings.  For our first show of 2014 we look at two of the biggest films to hit our cinemas at the end of last year, riotous retro crime caper American

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