What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 11th October 2019

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we review the most talked about movie release of the year, ‘Joker’.  Continuing the theme of controversial cinema we’ll review Australian medicinal cannabis documentary ‘Green Light’.  There’ll be plenty of great tunes for you with new Aussie and overseas tracks, classic rock and indie rock favourites from across the decades.  Don’t forget our comprehensive

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Film review: ‘AD ASTRA’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Ad Astra is almost a great sci fi film. With a physical beauty reminiscent of Gravity and 2001: A Space Odyssey, weighty themes such as the fragility of life on earth and the fundamentally destructive nature of human beings, it’s an aesthetically striking and at times thought-provoking film. Unfortunately, the film rests on a dull father-and-son reconciliation story that fails

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 4th October 2019

This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at Brad Pitt’s latest film, sci fi epic ‘Ad Astra’.  We’ll also tell you about Jim Jarmusch’s contribution to the zombie film genre, ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ which stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Adam Driver and Tom Waits.  There’ll be plenty of fine tunes with new Aussie indie rock, classic

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

Based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth (who also wrote the script), edgy Irish/ Australian romantic drama Animals explores a compellingly messy world of female friendship, modern feminism, failing dreams and the pressures of adult responsibility. Holliday Grainger stars as Laura, an aspiring novelist living on the ragged fringes of the Dublin arts community, whose attempts to write a

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