BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST FRIDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2012 1. UNCLE JOES BIG OLD DRIVER – Head first 2. YOU AM I – Punkarella. (Aus) 3. FISH JOHN WEST REJECT – Sooner or later. (Aus) 4. THE CLOUDS – Bower of bliss. (Aus) 5. DIED PRETTY – Sight unseen. (Aus) 6. PAUL WELLER – Wildwood. 7. IGGY POP – Wild America.
Read moreA film about a quirky Irishman putting together a group to perform classic 60’s soul music, no it’s not The Commitments it’s The Sapphires. This film is based on real events and tells the story of four young Aboriginal women, who in 1968 are lured by their manager (Chris O’Dowd) to perform as a Supremes style act for the troops
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we review Australian box office smash The Sapphires and the highly unusual French film Holy Motors. There’s also a fine selection of new and old indie rock and our regular preview of upcoming gigs and TV.
Read moreFollowing It’s Complicated, Hope Springs is Meryl Streep’s second rom com recently that centres on a broken marriage. While it has its pedestrian moments, Hope Springs, is thankfully darker and funnier than It’s Complicated. Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple whose relationship is on life support. Any romantic spark seems to have been snuffed out by their
Read moreWe all know the drill with the Bourne films: frenetic chases and elaborate, utterly implausible action allwrapped in a thin veil of grim, LeCaresque intrigue. The latest addition to the franchise, The Bourne Legacy sticks to the formula but not before a ponderous prologue full of confusing waffle about Treadstone, Black friars, Larx and biochemical experiments. Eventually it emerges that
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 31st AUGUST 2012 1. RED KROSS – Stay away from downtown 2. GAZ COOMBES – Hot fruit 3. VELOCIRAPTOR – Riot 4. ALABAMA SHAKES – Hang loose. 5. THE CULT – Life_Death. 6. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire 7. MISSION OF BURMA – That’s when I reach for my revolver. 8. HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS – Inside
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