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

Cargo is an Australian post-apocalyptic zombie film and while that concept might elicit groans from some people Cargo doesn’t always subscribe to horror convention and instead transforms a familiar scenario into a potent human drama reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and confronting allegory of Australia’s racially divided landscape. The film sees husband and wife Andy (Martin freeman) and Kay (Susie

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Film review: PACIFIC RIM, from Built For Speed

Only if you mated a Great Dane with a Blue Whale could you create a bigger dog than Pacific Rim.  What could have been an exciting high-tech twist on global apocalypse films and old-school, Japanese-style monster movies turns out to be a moronic, clichéd, emotionally empty dud. Not only is this film dumb, devoid of tension and visually incoherent, it

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Film review: WORLD WAR Z, from Built For Speed

Shaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies showed that there is something inherently comical about zombie movies.  These films suggested that the sight of actors in bad makeup staggering around and chewing on people’s intestine had become ridiculous and lost its ability to shock.  In that light, Brad Pitt’s latest film World War Z seemed to be courting ridicule with

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