Tag: Alfred Hitchcock

Film review: ‘BROTHERS’ NEST’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Brothers’ Nest is the latest collaboration between brothers Shane and Clayton Jacobson, the pairing that brought us the breakthrough Aussie hit Kenny.  Brothers’ Nest, a Cohen Brothers-esque murder drama infused with family resentment and a touch of Hitchcockian creepiness is, however, a very different beast to Kenny. Shane and Clayton play Terry and Jeff, two middle-aged brothers who have decided

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Film review: HITCHCOCK/ TRUFFAUT, from Built For Speed

The title of the documentary Hitchcock/ Truffaut may lead people to think it is a parallel biopic of both Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut and that it examines in detail the life and work of arguably the 1950’s two most important film-makers. That’s not quite the case as the focus of this documentary is a 1966 meeting between the two

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