It’s here folks, this Friday ‘Built For Speed’ will once again provide the perfect complement (and hopefully not antidote) to Christmas Cheer with our Christmas Special. We’ll play a selection of our favourite Christmas tunes and hopefully prove that the Christmas is not a wasteland for rock and pop music. We’ll also keep the film reivews coming as we take
Read moreSorry We Missed You is another gruelling and vitally important piece of social realism from veteran British director Ken Loach. There was a lot of talk about Joker capturing the destructive desperation of life at the lower end of the socio-economic scale but that film looks fanciful compared to this raw, sincere and heart-wrenching drama. Sorry We Missed You explores
Read moreMartin Scorsese’s iconic gangster films such as Goodfellas and Casino have given us fascinating insights into the history and mechanics of American organised crime and the male rituals that define gangster behaviour. These films have an amphetamine-fuelled rock’n’roll rush which, while exhilarating, don’t leave a lot of space for emotional introspection or a critique of gangster culture. In his latest
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we continue our look at the best music and the best and worst films of the decade. This time it’s the films and tunes of 2015 to 2018. We’ll also take a look at two current cinema releases, Martin Scorsese’s much lauded ‘The Irishman’ and the latest film for revered English director Ken Loach,
Read moreAs most people of a certain vintage would know The Addams Family was as a quirky 1960s TV show that, alongside The Munsters, Bewitched and I Dream of Genie formed part of a trend in supernaturally themed sitcoms. In their creepy and creaky haunted mansion, the Addams family were living horror tropes with the Vampira-like mother Morticia, the sullen ghoulish
Read moreFrozen has become a cinema icon, the most successful animated film of all time and sure to be a pop-cultural touchstone for today’s youngsters to enthuse about with both irony and nostalgia in fast food car parks in years to come. Not surprisingly, it’s sequel Frozen 2 is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Despite some impressive
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