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Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 26th May 2017
This week ‘Built For Speed’ takes you from one extreme of the cinema world to another as we review ‘Whitely’, a documentary about the iconic Australian artist and then tell you if Guy Ritchie’s medieval adventure, ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ does the famous tale justice. We also have plenty of fine tunes with some 80’s and 90’s classics
Read moreWhat’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 19th May 2017
This week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at one of the more intriguing films of 2017, psychological thriller ‘Get Out’. We also review one of less intriguing films of 2017, the Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn comedy ‘Snatched’. There’ll be plenty of fine tunes new and old with recent releases from Cable Ties, The Pink Tiles and many others as
Read moreFilm review: PERSONAL SHOPPER, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
With his latest film, Personal Shopper writer/director Olivier Assayas uses the supernatural horror medium as a way of externalising his lead character’s anxieties. This makes for an occasionally perplexing film but also an intriguing and genuinely spooky one. Kristen Stewart is Maureen, the eponymous shopper who works as a personal assistant to famous French fashion designer, Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten).
Read moreFilm review: THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
After the original Lego Movie became a box office behemoth there was no escaping a future filled with animated Lego figures spouting sarcastic quips. Now we have The Lego Batman Movie a cluttered, manic film stuffed with mostly superficial pop-cultural references that, while sporadically amusing, fails to live up to its predecessor. Here, Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) is having
Read moreFilm review: GHOST IN THE SHELL, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Ghost In The Shell is an adaptation of a popular Japanese graphic novel although it looks like it was spliced together from the DNA of Blade Runner and RoboCop with a dash of The Matrix. Like those films, Ghost in the Shell is set within a futuristic dystopia in which people have literally been submerged in questionable technology. Within this
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