This week on Built for Speed we review the depraved Teddy Bear comedy Ted and Scottish music festival romance You Instead. We may even have a look at the Katy Perry “documentary” Part of Me. There’s also a huge selection of fine music, new and old, including some appropriately spooky Friday the 13th tracks and something from that sprightly, young, up and coming band
Read moreFor their latest film, The Three Stooges, the Farrelly Brothers have taken on the ominous task of reinventing the comedy legends for the present day. Is it a triumph or a dud? Find out by clicking the podcast [below] of Built For Speed’s review.
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 6TH JULY 2012 1. JIMI HENDRIX – Let the good times roll. 2. YOU AM I – Minor Byrd.(Aus) 3. DALLAS CRANE – Curiosity. (Aus) 4. KING CANNONS – Too young. (Aus) 5. THE PICTURES – Can you hear it.(Aus) 6. ROONEY – Blueside. 7. THE DEARS – Hate then love. 8. MISSY HIGGINS – Unashamed
Read moreCabin in the Woods takes the Scream-style post-modern horror film satire to a bizarre and thrilling new level. The film slyly begins as a stereotypical teen horror film with a group of college students (including Aussie Chris Hemsworth) heading to a creepy old cabin in an isolated forest hoping for a weekend of drugs and sex. As any horror fan
Read moreAnotn Chekhov’s The Duel is based on the author’s 1891 novella of the same name which sets a seething tale of infidelity, passionate conflict, intellectual debate and decaying society in the deceptively sedate world of a seaside resort in the Caucasus in 19th century Russia. The film centres on Laevsky (Andrew Scott) an angry drunken layabout and self- proclaimed intellectual who’s
Read moreThe Farrelly Brothers’ film The Three Stooges is not a biopic of the comedy trio who beat each other senseless on the silver screen for 30 years but an attempt to recreate the Stooges for the present day. This just seems wrong, the Three Stooges weren’t just generic cinema creations they were unique characters whose personalities as much as their
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