It’s time once again for Built For Speed’s classic album selection, this month it’s another album turning 40 David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”. We also review new fantasy adventure Snow White and the Huntsman and Michelle Williams’ latest film Take This Waltz. Don’t forget our regular previews of upcoming gigs and TV for
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 15TH JUNE 2012 JIM JONES REVIEW – Dishonest John. VINTAGE TROUBLE – Blues hand me down. LA SERA – Please be my third eye. BELLES WILL RING – Street lamp stomp. (Aus) MUDHONEY – In’n’ out of grace. THE HEAVY – How do you like me now? SMASHING PUMPKINS – Bullet with butterfly wings. SUPERGRASS
Read moreOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia will split audiences into two bitterly opposed camps. Some will see it as a riveting meditation on human existence, others will feel that at 2 1/2 hours and as slow as a Boycott innings, it’s the biggest snore-fest of all time. The film’s title suggests an organised crime epic along the lines of Once
Read moreOutrageous big hair, spandex and leopard skin pants invade the screen in Rock of Ages, the cinema adaptation of the hit stage musical. Like the stage show, the film tries to capture the energy of the late the 80’s pop metal scene with a story of starry-eyed rockers on LA’s Sunset Strip. Rock musicals are always a dubious prospect. Rock
Read moreThe 80’s are back in all their big haired glory (or is that horror) as we look at the cinema adaptation of hit stage musical Rock of Ages. We’ll play some 80’s classics as well as many more recent tracks. There’s also plenty of fine art house fair around at the moment and this week we review one of the
Read moreWith its mix of Hitchcockian tension, stunning art direction and sinister Freudian imagery, Ridley Scott’s 1979 science fiction thriller Alien is (imho) one of cinema’s finest achievements. So, in anticipation of Prometheus, a (kind of) prequel to Alien, I was drooling much like the film’s monster. Unfortunately, a messy, unengaging and ultimately confusing script from John Spaihts and Damon Lindelof
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