Film review: ‘GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The Gen X nostalgia train rolls on with latest resurrection of an 80’s favourite, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.  The original Ghostbusters from 1984 was a fun mix of sci fi, supernatural spookiness and zany comedy.  The film worked in part because of the concept and director Ivan Reitman’s deft orchestration of its various elements but mostly because of the cast: Bill

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Film review ‘DUNE: PART 2’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

In 2021, Denis Villeneuve’s first instalment in his cinematic version of Frank Herbert’s iconic 1965 science fiction novel Dune saw young, floppy-haired Duke, Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) battle the invading armies of the nefarious Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard) before becoming a desert dwelling, giant sand worm-loving freedom fighter.  It was essentially a sci fi Lawrence of Arabia. While technically impressive

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