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

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Writer/director Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) The Brutalist is a monumental, expertly crafted and fascinating exploration of architecture, the immigrant experience, the American class system, art versus commerce and the quest to construct an identity.  While it appears to have drawn inspiration from a variety of films such as The Pianist, There Will Be Blood, The Fountainhead, The Agony and Ecstasy

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Film review: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, from ‘Built For Speed’

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is such a towering figure he has moved beyond the cloistered world of science and academia to become a pop-cultural icon.  He has even earned the occasional appearance on the Big Bang Theory where he regularly taunts Sheldon.  The Theory of Everything dramatises Hawking’s (Eddie Redmayne) life during what is arguably his most productive and tumultuous

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