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 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 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
Read moreIt’s time once again for Built for Speed’s classic album retrospective and this month its the debut album by guitar god Jimi Hendrix and his band the Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced”. An iconic figure of a slightly different ilk is J. Edgar Hoover and this week we review the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic J. Edgar. We also review Sam
Read moreYou know the drill with sci/fi horror these days: a disparate group of pretty young adults are forced to stop whining and unite to battle a seemingly indestructible alien menace. You can clothe it in military fetishism ala Battle: Los Angeles or Inner city housing estate culture as in Attack the Block but it’s still the same film. The Darkest
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