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: ‘THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built for Speed’
Revered Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film The Seed of the Sacred Fig was made in secret before Rasoulof fled Iran under threat of arrest and imprisonment. He now lives in Germany and this film was Germany’s nominee for best International Feature Oscar. While this mostly riveting film maintains the very high standard of works from Iranian directors that reach
Film review: ‘ONE OF THEM DAYS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built for Speed’
Some silly humour and 80’s movie “hooray for entrepreneurial capitalism” clichés aside, One Of Them Days is a vibrant, sassy feel-good comedy that celebrates and affectionately jokes with African American culture. The set up in this film is pretty familiar, having seen it in movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Due Date, where the responsible person’s life is constantly
Film review: ‘THE LAST SHOWGIRL’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
In 2008, Mickey Rourke made a much-lauded comeback in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. That movie explored the traumatic life of a person on the fringes of the entertainment industry (in that case, lower tier pro-wrestling) facing the end of their career. In so doing, it examined identity, masculinity, the industry in which the character worked and seemingly reflected the challenging
Film review: ‘THE MONKEY’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Based on a Stephen King short story and directed by Osgood Perkins, who gave us last year’s overrated Longlegs, The Monkey is an awkward mash-up of grossout horror and quirky comedy that isn’t especially scary or funny. The eponymous monkey is a slightly creepy looking toy critter that two young twins, obnoxious bully Bill and his main victim, nervous younger
Film review: ‘BIRD’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Mixing raw and confronting ‘life on the skids’ drama with touches of the surreal, British director Andrea Arnold’s impressively ambitious if uneven, Bird will entrance many but leave some a little confused. The film centres on 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) who lives in a highly dysfunctional household with her sullen brother, Hunter (Jason Buda) who seems to be part of
Film review: ‘BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Becoming Led Zeppelin is a detailed, well-researched but sanitised and overly methodical reminiscence about the rock legends. Also, unfortunately, there’s a bit more truth to the film’s title than we might have wanted. It only covers the legendary British band’s formation and early touring and recording years and barely emerges from the 1960’s. Consequently, this film feels more like the