With the end of 2012 and the Built For Speed end of year spectacular fast approaching we look at some of the tracks that made our best of lists in the last few years. There’s also a smattering of classic rock and a few tracks that just missed out this year. We also review two romantic comedies Paris Manhattan and Two Days
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we look at two very different films: the sensitive teen drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower and a film starring the man who would probably slap the kids in Wallflower upside the head, Clint Eastwood, who plays – believe it not – an old school American grump in The Trouble with the Curve. There’s
Read moreJulie Delpy once again redefines multi-tasking as she co/writes, directs, stars in and even writes songs for the soundtrack of her latest film Two Days in New York, a sequel to her previous film Two Days in Paris. Like Woody Allen’s latest effort, To Rome with Love, this is a light and fluffy rom com but its screwball scenarios actually
Read moreThe plots of James Bond films are usually confusing to the point of being irrelevant and just an excuse for bond to go shagging and shooting his way around the globe. Skyfall has its fair share of bedroom gymnastics and killings but it also has greater psychological depth and emotional complexity than just about any Bond film as it forces
Read moreThe Sound of My Voice is like a darker and ultimately less satisfying companion piece to the engaging time travel fantasy Safety Not Guaranteed. In The Sound of My Voice the mysterious person who claims to travel through time is a cult leader named Maggie (Brit Marling – Another Earth) who tells her followers she has returned to our time
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 30th NOVEMBER 2012 1. ROYAL HEADACHE – Never again. (Aus) 2. THE CHEVELLES – Stardust. (Aus) 3. DADDY COOL – Hi Honey Ho. (Aus) 4. CROW – Railhead. (Aus) 5. THE INNOCENTS – Sooner or later.(Aus) 6. JEFF LANG – You should have waited. (Aus) 7. GOTYE – Somebody that I used to know. (Aus) 8.
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