What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 20th December 2019

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

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Film review: ‘CHARLIE’S ANGELS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Did the world need another Charlie’s Angels remake? After seeing this clumsy and largely charmless cinematic version, the answer will probably be an emphatic ‘no!’. This film, directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Patrick Stewart and Banks herself has eschewed the fun, exciting, vividly-coloured, endearingly silly, sugar-rush style of the Angels films from the

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Film review: ‘TERMINATOR: DARK FATE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

From its plot to its dialogue to its action sequences and its overwrought clanging metallic soundtrack, Terminator: Dark Fate has been engineered to mimic the beloved early films, particularly Terminator 2: Judgement Day. While tightly-constructed, occasionally exciting and moderately inventive, this latest instalment in the 35-year-old franchise is just too familiar to really thrill. It starts encouragingly with a refreshing

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 29th November 2019

This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the latest cinema incarnation of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ and a return to oddball crime drama for Rian Johnson with whodunnit ‘Knives Out’.  There’ll be plenty of great tunes with new Aussie indie tracks, classic rock including some iconic tracks celebrating their 50th anniversary and some tunes that didn’t quite make

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 8th November 2019

This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two hotly anticipated movie sequels, ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ which sees the return of Sarah Connor herself Linda Hamilton and ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ starring Angelina Jolie.  There’ll be plenty of fine tunes with new Aussie tracks, indie rock favourites, classic rock and selections celebrating their 30th anniversary.  Don’t forget

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