Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 5th October 2012

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 5th OCTOBER 2012  1.     TOM JONES – Thunderball. 2.     DINOSAUR JR – Pierce the morning rain. 3.     REDD KROSS – Researching the blues. 4.     GREEN DAY – Rusty James 5.     BLACK KEYS – 10am Automatic. 6.     BLONDIE – Hanging on the telephone. 7.     RADIOHEAD – Electioneering. 8.     THE INNOCENTS – Sooner or later.(Aus) 9.     DM 3

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Film review: LOOPER from Built For Speed

Looper is a strange, inventive but ultimately underwhelming mix of Terminator, Blade Runner and Die Hard. Looper posits the idea that about 60 years from now we will have discovered time travel but because of its inherent dangers, it will have been banned.  The only people who will use it will be criminal organisations who, because of bio tracking techniques,

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 5th October 2012

This week on Built For Speed we have plenty of great new music from Green day and Red Kross as well as classic power pop from Australia and overseas including The Innocents, The Records and The Numbers.  We also take a look at two new cinema releases that play havoc with time and space Looper and Ruby Sparks.  Don’t forget our regular

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Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 28th September 2012

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 28th  SEPTEMBER 2012  1.     JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION – Danger. 2.     THE MEN – Turn it around. 3.     JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD – Hypnotic mind. 4.     THE VACCINES – All in vain. 5.     THE LIVING END – Long live the weekend. (Aus) 6.     THE RAMONES – Howling at the moon. (Aus) 7.     YOU AM I – Jewels

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Film review: LORE from Built For Speed

Lore is an Australian-German co-production directed by Cate Shortland who burst onto the scene in 2004 with her debut feature Somersault. Shot in Germany and spoken almost entirely in German, Lore is based on one of the stories from the Rachel Seiffert novel The Dark Room.  The film is set in Germany in 1945 just as the Nazi regime is

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Film review: ON THE ROAD, from Built For Speed

Through the adventures of would be writer Sal paradise and his crazed buddy Dean Moriarty, Jack Kerouac’s largely autobiographical 1957 novel On the Road attempted to articulate the restlessness of intellectually ambitious but disillusioned post-war American youth. The film adaptation by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) turns the story into a weird bromance as Sal (Sam Riley) and Dean (Garrett Hedlund)

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