Film review: ‘READY PLAYER ONE’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One is an enormous nerdgasm, a sprawling big screen video game stuffed with retro pop culture references and teen geek heroes. Based on the 2011 Ernest Cline novel, the film is a love letter to gamer culture which means some are going to adore it while others may find it alienating and headache-inducing. The film propels

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Film review: ‘TOMB RAIDER’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

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The Lara Croft: Tomb Raider video game was first brought to the cinema screen in the campy sexualised 2001 version starring Angelina Jolie. It was a ridiculous yet tolerable time-filler although hardly a film crying out for a remake. Yet a remake there is. Tomb Raider which is, in part, a Lara Croft origin story, tries to emulate the matinee

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