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Film review: ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore After the zeitgeist-shaping triumph of the Harry Potter films, the Fantastic Beasts movies, which are essentially Potter prequels, have been a major disappointment. Whereas the Potter films brimmed with invention and the youthful energy of their extremely likeable teen cast, the Beast movies have been flat, dull, grey-brown CGI–drenched slabs with confusing plots and

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

Morbius The latest in the apparently never-ending procession of marvel films, Morbius (although this one is Spiderverse rather than MCU) is more like a DC Batman film than a typical Marvel movie. Not only does the title character have an obsession with and the powers of a bat but this film at least attempts to be as dark and intense

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

Dog Talk about tempting fate with a movie title. Thankfully, this story of the uneasy friendship between a US army Ranger who served in Afghanistan before being discharged on medical grounds and a ferocious military dog is my no means a dog but it often struggles to deliver a convincing story. Channing Tatum (who co-directed with Reid Carolin) plays war

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Film review: ‘THE BOOK OF LOVE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The Book of Love With the amiable but often weirdly flat and unfunny culture clash rom com, The Book Of Love, Sam Claflin seems to be trying to grab Hugh Grant’s now vacant title as the resident charming, floppy-haired, bumbling Brit. Unfortunately, a performance that’s often shouty, whiny and confused deprives him and the film overall of anything like Grant’s

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Film review: ‘DEATH ON THE NILE’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Death on the Nile Following his well-received Murder on The Orient Express remake, Kenneth Branagh returns as director and lead character – the iconic detective Hercule Poirot – in another Agatha Christie film remake, Death on the Nile, which we previously saw in 1978. The film largely follows the template of the 1978 version as a ‘well to do’ group

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

Darkest Hour and Atonement director Joe Wright’s vibrant, occasionally awkward and sometimes moving Cyrano is an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name which was itself based on dramatist Edmond Rostand’s classic 1897 romantic tragi-comedy Cyrano de Bergerac. Through its title character, the story of Cyrano celebrates the arts of wit and rhetoric and the power of words

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