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

Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet is a Shakespeare biopic of sorts that, on one level explores the story behind the Bard’s writing of Hamlet, possibly the most famous work of English literature but also deliberately displaces Shakespeare to the sidelines to examine the plight of his wife Agnes. Rather than retelling a famous person’s story, this is a stark, striking looking, but

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

Nomadland depicts a largely unseen but apparently growing subculture, people who have forgone the dream of home ownership and suburban security to travel the country, working itinerantly and living in their vans.  Written and directed by Chloe Zhao and based on Jessica’s Bruder’s book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, this wonderfully rugged, humane and moving film has rightly

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