Shame is sure to divide both audiences and critics. Some will see it as a mesmerizing depiction of urban anomie and perverted desire; others will think it’s a boring, pretentious load of cobblers. Few will dispute, though, that Michael Fassbender gives a sensational performance in the lead role. Fassbender plays a slicked-back, square-jawed corporate type named Brandon who also happens
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we review controversial new film Shame and action blockbuster Safe House. We also preview the Oscars which screen on Mon 27th Feb. Theres also new music from Mark Lanegan and Sures as well as favourites from across the decades. Don’t forget our preview of upcoming gigs and TV for the week. Check out Built For
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED: PLAYLIST, FRI 17TH FEB 2012 1. JOAN JETT – Love is all around. 2. AERIAL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – Bright lit blue sky. 3. LUCINDA WILLIAMS – Buttercup. 4. MY MORNING JACKET – One big holiday. 5. DRIVE BY TRUCKERS – Look out
Read moreFollowing Hugo, The Artist is the Second film this Oscar season to revel in nostalgia for the silent movie era. The Artist doesn’t just talk about silent film as a lost art, however, it is itself a silent film shot in black and white in the pre-war square film ratio with subtitled dialogue and virtually no on-screen sound except for
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED: PLAYLIST, FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2012 1. THE CLOUDS – Here now. 2. BLOOD RED SHOES – It’s getting boring by the sea 3. WILD FLAG – Romance. 4. JONATHON WILSON – The way I feel. 5. PINK FLOYD – Another brick in the wall. 6. THE POGUES – Body of an American. 7. JOHN FOGARTY – Fortunate
Read moreIt seems to be the year for biopics of controversial conservative icons, first it was Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, now it’s infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leo Di Caprio) in the rather uninventively titled J. Edgar. The film portrays most of the major events in Hoover’s professional life including the search for Charles Lindbergh’s baby, his pursuit
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