This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two of the big recent cinema releases: Wonder Woman: 1984 and Australian crime drama The Dry which stars Eric Bana. We’ll also have some more of the best tracks of 2020 as well as classic and indie rock favourites from across the decades. Don’t forget our round-up of TV
Read moreThere’s no better way to start the new year than with the ‘Built For Speed, End of Year Spectacular’. This Friday, the ‘Built For Speed’ crew reveal their picks for best and worst movies, best albums and their favourite TV of 2020. There’ll be a feast of fine tunes as we also play our favourite tracks of the year. Check
Read moreCinema-goers would be be pretty optimistic if they expected a documentary about the brilliant but chaotic musician and Pogues frontman, Shane McGowan to be a smooth and straightforward ride, particularly as the director is frequent Sex Pistols documenter, Julien Temple. A swirling storm of words and images stitched together from interview fragments, concert film, stock footage and even animated fantasy
Read moreThe cinema has handled the topic of mental illness with vastly differing degrees of accuracy and sensitivity. Films like Silver Linings Playbook have intelligently captured the complexities of mental illness and the way in which it impacts on sufferer’s loved ones while movies like Split have alarmingly equated mental illness with something monstrous. Words on Bathroom Walls, which stars Lean
Read moreDavid Fincher’s latest film Mank may be a little perplexing for those who don’t have an abiding love of movies, particularly the film often considered Hollywood’s finest, Citizen Kane. Mank depicts the period in the 1930’s in which renowned screenwriter and according to the film, gambling-addicted drunk, Herman J Mankiewicz aka Mank (Gary Oldman) toiled on the script for Kane
Read moreDespite all the obstacles we’ve confronted this year, there are a few summertime icons that can’t be denied: drunk bogans in Santa hats and the ‘Built For Speed’ Christmas Extravaganza. If you think Christmas songs are lame you will be proven wrong as we feature some magnificent Christmas tracks from bands of the calibre of The Kinks, Cheap Trick and
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