The year is screaming past at an alarming rate but this week on Built For Speed we thought we’d turn the clock back the other way and take a look at the music of previous decade. Yes, Built For Speed plays their favourites from the years 2001 – 2010 including The White Stripes, The Shins, Interpol, The Libertines and Aussie artists
Read moreMelbourne’s icy misery has set in and it’s not even Winter but to paraphrase Dr Smith from Lost in Space “never fear Built for Speed is here”. Tune in this Friday and have your ears and pretty much every part of your anatomy warmed by our smoking hot selection of tracks including a tribute to the late Tim Hemmensley whose former band The Powder Monkeys
Read moreLoosely based on actual events, Australian Surfing drama Drift depicts the exploits of two brothers Andy and Jimmy Kelly as they try to establish themselves in the early days of the Australian surf industry in the 1970’s. After fleeing her abusive husband, Kat (Robyn Malcolm) takes her young sons Andy (Myles Pollard) and Jimmy (Xavier Samuel) to Western Australia’s Margaret
Read moreMake sure you eat before seeing French kitchen drama Haute Cuisine otherwise you will be drooling like the Alien, so enticing is the parade of French delicacies on display here. In fact, this film is closer to a cooking programme than a traditional drama and may not appeal to those who regard spending hours in the kitchen as a tedious
Read moreFollowing Quartet and Performance, Song For Marion is the third recent film about older people finding solace, meaning and fulfilment through music. Like those films, Song for Marion makes some sobering and touching observations about ageing and mortality although it’s often unsubtle in its emotional manipulation and veers awkwardly into the world of quirky comedy. Terence stamp and Vanessa Redgrave
Read moreBy 2008 the Marvel Comics adaptations weren’t looking too healthy. The Fantastic Four films had been turkeys and the overlong and confusing Spiderman 3 had skittled the high expectations raised by the sensational Spiderman 2. Iron Man, however, was like a 50,000 vault surge of electricity to the ailing Frankenstein corpse of superhero movies. The film combined powerful dynamic action
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