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Film review: ‘The Hunger Games: The ballad of songbirds and snakes’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The dystopian sci-fi film series, The Hunger Games was hugely successful and a cultural touchstone for many young cinema goers (but not so much this reviewer). Through those films, Jennifer Lawrence established herself as a major star playing heroine, Katniss Everdeen who, in a post-apocalyptic future, competed in the eponymous televised teen gladiator death matches and battled the fictional nation

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

Bringing to life a full-scale biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte has been something of an Ahab-like quest for film directors. Stanley Kubrick had a Napoleon film (at one point with Jack Nicholson as the French Emperor) in the works for many years before shelving it due to studio budget concerns. Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk tackled the subject with mixed results in

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Film review: ‘My Name is Alfred Hitchcock’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

For better or worse, documentary My Name is Alfred Hitchcock is not so much about the man and his personal history but the master of suspense’s filmmaking approach. To delve into this topic, Director Mark Cousins has made the slightly unusual decision to have British actor and impressionist Alistair McGowan impersonate Hitch as narrator. This is a little distracting at

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

Australian cinema isn’t renowned for its science fiction films although Mad Max and Upgrade fans might disagree. Seemingly influenced by the likes of TV show Black Mirror, the latest Aussie sci fi film, Monolith makes for a topical and inventive, if limited, addition to the genre. Monolith is as much a psychological mystery thriller as a sci fi film as

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

Based on Ian Reid’s 2018 novel, the dystopian sci fi drama, Foe offers an intriguing premise but too often delivers it in a dull fashion. Set in the year 2065, the film depicts a world in which our worst fears about the impacts of climate change have been realised. Global drought has almost annihilated agriculture so governments have begun a

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

Through films like Air, Blackberry and now Dumb Money, an intriguing sub-genre has recently emerged in cinema: the maverick entrepreneur capitalist film. Through their depiction of quirky yet highly driven individuals, these movies both critique and celebrate the American obsession with the market and the pursuit of business success. The latest addition to this sub-genre, the fascinating, funny, cheekily inspiring,

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