Built for Speed
Program: Built for Speed
Broadcast time: Every Friday night 8pm – 10pm
Presenters: Nick, CJ and Jimbo.
Are you a fan of rock, both alternative and classic?
Want to know whether that cinematic blockbuster or art house flick you’ve heard about is worth your time and your hard-earned cash?
Looking for some questionable comedy and pop-cultural commentary?
Then you need to listen to Built for Speed on 88.3 Southern FM.
Built for Speed presenters CJ, Jimbo and Nick have been blasting the Southern suburbs with their favourite music and totally unbiased film reviews every Friday night at 8pm for nearly 16 years.
Whether it’s established bands or music virtually no-one’s heard about, we’ll bring it you if we think it’s any good. We’re proud to say we were one of the first shows playing artists like Wilco, The Vines and MGMT.
Our film tastes are equally eclectic so if you’re a fan of extreme action, sci-fi, genteel period dramas or some strange combination of these we’ll let you know what’s worth seeing.
We also have the occasional guest drop by and in the past have enjoyed a chat with Mick Molloy, actor Tony Martin, film industry insiders and numerous up-coming bands.
Unlike most programs on the commercial stations we take song requests and every so often tantalise our learned audience with CJ’s rock quiz. So tune in this Friday and gorge yourself on the pop-cultural triple cheese burger that is “Built for Speed”.
Posts for Built for Speed:
Film review: ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Do we really need remakes of b-grade 80s slasher films? Halloween had enough cultural cache and Gen X nostalgia value to justify the reboot but ultra-violent Santa Claus movie Silent Night Deadly Night from 1984 did not have ‘essential remake’ written all over it. The new version, a goofy slasher comedy is, however, a little more watchable and a little
Film review: ‘Zootopia 2’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Zootopia from 2016 was one of the cleverer, wittier and more charming animated films of the last decade. Set in a world entirely populated by talking animals who managed to live together without eating each other, it mixed family friendly crime caper adventure with dash of political corruption and had us cheering for its two likeable heroes, intrepid rabbit junior
Film review: ‘WICKED: FOR GOOD’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Last year’s Wicked, the first in a two-part film adaptation of the smash hit stage show, was a pop cultural sensation; a fun frothy musical fantasy that seemed to fill the void in major event escapist cinema left by the conclusion of the Harry Potter films. It was also a remarkably effective vehicle for the prodigious talents of its leads
Film review: ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Paul Thomas Anderson is rightly considered one of the most important directors of the last few decades and his film are regarded as event cinema. Still, his last couple of movies, the nostalgic Liquorice Pizza and oddball fashion world drama Phantom Thread, had mixed reactions. His latest film, the exhilaratingly bonkers activist action/drama/comedy One Battle After Another, is his most
Film review: ‘THE RUNNING MAN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
It’s been a big year for Stephen King adaptations about people in deadly foot races. Earlier, we had the impressively gruelling and poignant The Long Walk and now comes The Running Man, not only a King adaptation but a remake of the 1987 Arnie film. The original film was an entertainingly silly piece of glossy 80’s sci fi action that
Film review: ‘PREDATOR: BADLANDS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Gen X franchise regeneration continues with a surprisingly entertaining addition to the sci fi action franchise Predator in Predator: Badlands. As with the Terminator movies, what was once the otherworldly villain has now become the hero as the Predator known as Dek (New Zealand actor Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), who is a member of the a Yautja people, is at the