What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 12th March 2021

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we have a look at Australian documentary ‘Girl’s Can’t Surf’ which explores female surfers’ attempts to gain the recognition they deserved on the surfing tour.  We also review rom-com ‘Then Came You’ which, believe it or not, stars Kathy-Lee Gifford and Craig Ferguson.  There’ll be many fine tunes for you with new Aussie and

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Film review: ‘ZAPPA’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Frank Zappa, musician, composer, band leader, producer, visual artist, the list goes on, was a perplexing and brilliant figure and perhaps appropriately but still frustratingly, the lengthy and detailed documentary, simply titled Zappa, doesn’t allow us to gain a complete handle on that brilliance.  The film comes from director Alex Winter, yes Bill from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure who,

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 5th February 2021

As cinemas reopen, one of the great annual events is back, the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival and this week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Johanna Durand, the Director of the Melbourne branch of the Alliance Francaise about the selection of movies on offer this year.  We’ll also take a look at the Frank Zappa documentary and Australian

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