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

Frank Herbert’s award winning iconic 1965 sci-fi novel Dune is a broad sweeping saga of royal ascent, political intrigue and imperial conquest while at the same time a story filled with multiple character arcs and invented alien societies, cultures, religions and mythologies.  Consequently, Dune makes for a dense and tangled narrative and one that many have deemed unfilmable. In 1984,

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 10th December 2021

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we tell you all about Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s crack at that treacherous Mt Everest of filmmaking, the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel ‘Dune’.  Also, as we head toward the end of 2021 and our end of year, ‘best of’ spectacular, we take a look back at the best music of

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Film review: PRISONERS, from Built For Speed

The wonderfully tense and gruelling kidnap drama Prisoners is one of the year’s best films.  Relentlessly gripping and often disturbing, the film depicts a parent’s worst nightmare as two little girls mysteriously disappear from a Thanksgiving Day celebration. With the police investigation floundering, one of the girls’ Fathers, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and the investigating detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) resort

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