Tag: Transcendence

Film review: TRANSCENDENCE, from Built For Speed

Films with a sinister, all-powerful, self-aware computer threatening to obliterate the human race have almost become a genre unto themselves.  There was the creepy HAL trying to scuttle the Jupiter mission in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Skynet triggering the apocalypse in The Terminator, Colossus threatening nuclear annihilation in Colossus: The Forbin Project and the female-voiced computer taunting Shia Labeouf in

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 2nd May 2014

This week on Built For Speed we speak to Gus Macmillan from Blue Grassy Knoll about the band’s orchestral adaptation of their musical score for Buster Keaton’s The General. It’s also classic album time and this month we head back to 2003 and play some tracks from Ryan Adams’ Rock’n’roll.  Once again there’s  a deluge of films in our cinema

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