Tag: American Hustle

Film review: AMERICAN HUSTLE, from Built For Speed

American Hustle is an intoxicating mix of 1970’s nostalgia, slow-burn crime drama and comedy that probes themes of deception and identity and constantly asks the question “who’s playing who?”  American Hustle is, along with Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell’s second film of 2013 and together they reassert him as one of American cinema’s most important contemporary auteurs. Set

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 3rd January 2014

Happy New Year “Built For Speed” listeners.  There’s no respite from the “Built For Speed” machine as we charge through Summer with more fine music, film reviews and pop cultural ramblings.  For our first show of 2014 we look at two of the biggest films to hit our cinemas at the end of last year, riotous retro crime caper American

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