Built for Speed – ‘CHRISTMAS DAY’ 25th December 2015 THE CRYSTALS – Santa Claus is coming to town. DARLENE LOVE – Christmas Baby Please Come Home. SLADE – Merry Christmas. ROY WOOD – I wish it could be Christmas every day. MANIC STREET PREACHERS – Last Christmas. MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS – Love is like a heatwave. BERNARD HERMAN –
Read moreBuilt for Speed – ‘END OF YEAR SPECTACULAR’ 18th December 2015 LIAM HAYES -Fokus LORIKEET – Why. (Aus) DARK FAIR – Listen up (Aus) HOWLING BELLS – Original sin (Aus) YOU AM I – Good advices. (Aus) TEETH AND TONGUE – Cupcake. (Aus) CHRIS CORNELL – Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart. FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE – What Kind of Man. WEEZER
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we pay tribute to the genius of a musical pioneer sadly lost this week, David Bowie. We’ll play a selection of Bowie favourites and look at his impact on music and culture. There’s also plenty of films to discuss including new teen lit sci-fi adventure The Fifth Wave and the Golden Globe nominated Carol which
Read moreFew films have had so much pre-release hype and such a weight of expectation as Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Reigniting possibly the most loved film franchise in history and plugging into a film mythology that defined the youth of many people, particularly Gen x-ers, is a daunting task for any film-maker. Much of the fevered anticipation for this film
Read moreGambling addiction drama Mississippi Grind indulges nearly all the clichés of the ‘nihilistic loser seeking redemption’ movie right down to the relationship with a hooker with a heart of gold but impressive turns from leads Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn animate a slightly creaky story. Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn play two pathological gambling addicts, Curtis and Gerry, who try
Read moreThe Good Dinosaur is one of those Disney Pixar animated adventure comedies that anthropomorphises dinosaurs into quirky or heroic human archetypes. We’ve seen this in numerous animated features but the eternal fascination with dinosaurs means the concept still works wonderfully. This film attempts to justify the human-like qualities of its dinosaur characters by speculating what might have happened if the
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