Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 5th April 2013

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 5th APRIL 2013 1.    FAKER – Hurricane. (Aus) 2.    SASKWATCH – I get lonely. (Aus) 3.    THE DATSUNS – Gold Halo.(Aus) 4.    DAVE GROHL & RICK SPRINGFIELD – The Man That Never Was.(Aus) 5.    THE ROLLING STONES – Brown Sugar. 6.    IGGY POP – The Passenger. 7.    BOOMTOWN RATS – Banana Republic. 8.    THE JACKSON FIVE

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 5th April 2013

This week on Built For Speed we take a look at the latest instalment in the Die Hard movie franchise A Good Day to Die Hard.  We also step away from the violence and smirking Bruce Willis to have a look at animated family film The Croods.  There’s plenty of fine new music with Saskwatch, The Datsuns and many others as well

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Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 29th March 2013

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 29th MARCH 2013 1.    HOODOO GURUS – I want you back.(Aus) 2.    COLD CHISEL – 20th Century. (Aus) 3.    HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS – Inside a fireball (Aus) 4.    DIED PRETTY – Blue sky day. (Aus) 5.    PAUL KELLY – From St Kilda to Kings Cross. (Aus) 6.    THE SMITHS – Heaven knows I’m miserable now. 7.   

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Film review: A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, from Built For Speed

The Die Hard films have never been think-pieces but most of them have been fun, exciting and inventive and the original film undeniably changed the action movie landscape. The fifth instalment in the series, A Good Day to Die Hard is almost completely devoid of these redeeming features and is such a ludicrous right-wing fantasy you would be forgiven for

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Film review: JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, from Built For Speed

Parents be warned, Jack the Giant Slayer is not as kid-friendly as you might expect.  Although it’s based on the Jack and the Beanstalk fable, it’s no cute fairy tale.  This is a loud, violent action fantasy that’s closer to Robert Zemeckis’ intense reimaging of Beowulf than any fairy story and may traumatise children under 12. The violence begins in

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Film review: FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D, from Built For Speed

Flight of the Butterflies (3D) (which screens at the IMAX cinema) documents and dramatises the scientific quest to track the winter migration of the Monarch Butterfly from the Great Lakes of North America to its mysterious destination further south. As with nearly all IMAX doco’s Flight of the Butterflies is visually stunning as it tracks the Monarch through its life

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