Film review: HOPE SPRINGS, from Built For Speed

Following It’s Complicated, Hope Springs is Meryl Streep’s second rom com recently that centres on a broken marriage. While it has its pedestrian moments, Hope Springs, is thankfully darker and funnier than It’s Complicated. Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple whose relationship is on life support. Any romantic spark seems to have been snuffed out by their

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Film review: THE BOURNE LEGACY, from Built For Speed

We all know the drill with the Bourne films: frenetic chases and elaborate, utterly implausible action allwrapped in a thin veil of grim, LeCaresque intrigue. The latest addition to the franchise, The Bourne Legacy sticks to the formula but not before a ponderous prologue full of confusing waffle about Treadstone, Black friars, Larx and biochemical experiments. Eventually it emerges that

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Built For Speed playlist, Friday 31st August 2012

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 31st AUGUST 2012  1.     RED KROSS – Stay away from downtown 2.     GAZ COOMBES – Hot fruit 3.     VELOCIRAPTOR – Riot 4.     ALABAMA SHAKES – Hang loose. 5.     THE CULT – Life_Death. 6.     U2 – The Unforgettable Fire 7.     MISSION OF BURMA – That’s when I reach for my revolver. 8.     HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS – Inside

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 31st August 2012

Hopefully the masses survived the trauma of a week without Built For Speed but fear not we’re back this Friday with a packed show.  It’s classic album time once again and with Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore soon to be in town for the Melbourne festival, our August album is Sonic Youth’s 1990 breakthrough masterpiece Goo.  There’s also plenty of new

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Built For Speed, playlist Friday 17th August 2012

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 17TH AUGUST 2012  1.     REGURGITATOR – Crush the losers.(Aus) 2.     THE MEN – Turn it around. 3.     COURTNEY LOVE – Mono. 4.     TY STEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – I am not a game. 5.     MIKAL CRONIN – Is it alright? 6.     POND – Elegant design. (Aus) 7.     BADFINGER- No matter what. 8.     BEE GEES –You should

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Film review: THE CAMPAIGN from Built For Speed

The Campaign tries to fit a political comedy into the Will Ferrell movie template which means we have the joy of seeing Ferrell go nuts but also a plot so predictable that you will feel like Nostradamus as you watch the film. Just imagine Talladega Nights nascar driver Ricky Bobby as a politician and you’ll have a pretty good idea

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