‘Built For Speed’ playlist Friday 3rd April 2015

Built For Speed – Playlist Friday 3rd April 2015 UNCLE JOES BIG OL’ DRIVER – Red room. CELIBATE RIFLES – Where the action is (Aus) THE EASYBEATS – Friday on my mind. (Aus) THE DARKNESS – Friday night. FIRST AID KIT – Cedar Lane. THE PREACHERS – Somebody’s talking. (Aus) THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES – Kansas City. LIAM HAYES –

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Film review: LOVE IS STRANGE, from ‘Built For Speed’

The gentle understated Love Is Strange begins as an examination of the difficulties faced by same sex couples but ends up as a more conventional indie family drama. George (Alfred Molina) and Ben (John Lithgow) play a recently married couple enjoying life in an upmarket New York apartment. When, in a reaction to the wedding, the catholic school where George

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Film review: CINDERELLA, from ‘Built For Speed’

The latest version of Cinderella from Disney is a classical opulent rendering of the fairy tale.  Director Kenneth Branagh has resisted the urge for post-modern tinkering or anachronistic contemporary references and delivered a straightforward telling that will please a broad audience. Downton Abbey’s Lily James stars as the title character who, after her Father’s death, has been left to endure

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Film review: TOP FIVE, from ‘Built For Speed’

It seems to be the year for comedians making semi-biographical films. We’ve had Carl Barron with Manny Lewis and now the much more obscene and inventive Top Five written and directed by and starring Chris Rock. Clearly drawing on his life and career, Rock plays much-loved but artistically unfulfilled stand-up comedian turned actor, Andre Allen. After making a bundle in

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Film review: JOURNEY TO SPACE – 3D, from ‘Built For Speed’

The new IMAX documentary Journey to Space 3D is a visually stunning, aurally overwhelming experience that explores the history of space travel and reveals the remarkable plans to send a manned mission to Mars. With wonderfully soothing but authoritative narration from Patrick Stewart, actual outer-space footage from the International Space Station, (extremely loud) scenes of rocket launches, photos from the

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