Film review: RED DOG: TRUE BLUE, from ‘Built For Speed’

Red Dog was one of recent Australian cinema’s greatest success stories, an unassuming and charming family film that ended up being a box office hit.  Red Dog proved (as we should have already known) that films about Australia and our national culture will find an audience.  With that film’s success a sequel was inevitable.  While unlikely to become as iconic

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‘Built For Speed’ Playlist, Friday 6th January 2017

Built for Speed – 6th January 2017 QUEEN – Let me entertain you. SASKWATCH – I get lonely. (Aus) HALFWAY – Dropout. (Aus) TEETH AND TONGUE – Cupcake. (Aus) DAVID BOWIE – Moonage Daydream. STATUS QUO – Rockin’ all over the world. GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot the dog. THE REPLACEMENTS – Little mascara. TOM WAITS – Hang down your head.

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 6th January 2017

Happy New Year everyone.  For ‘Built For Speed’s’ first show of 2017 we take a look at the sequel to one of Australia’s most successful films, Red Dog with Red Dog:True Blue.  We also let you know whether Why Him?, which stars James Franco and Bryan Cranston,  is actually funny or yet another Hollywood comedy dud.  With the Oscars approaching we begin

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