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

Low-budget British drama, Scrapper takes a slender plot and infuses it with pathos and slightly erratic humour for one of the year’s more engaging cinematic oddities. Following her mother’s death, 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell) is living by herself on an English council estate. Dodging school, making money selling stolen bikes with her friend Ali (Alin Uzun) and duping social services

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

British playwright Alan Bennett (The History Boys; The Lady in the Van) has been documenting and dramatising the British character and the country’s institutions for decades. His play Allelujah, which examined the health system and its impact on the vulnerable people within in it has now been turned into a film.  While at times very affecting, occasionally grim, sometimes amusing,

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