Film review: MIFF 2022. ‘HIDE AND SEEK’ from ‘Built For Speed’
Hi folks, Here’s the audio of our review of the MIFF 2022 feature film: ‘Hide and Seek’.
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Film review: ‘THE FORGIVEN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The dark, erudite, acerbic, if somewhat repetitive drama, The Forgiven, is a confronting story of guilt, vengeance and the clash of western and middle eastern cultures. Ralph Fiennes plays the bitterly cynical alcoholic doctor, David Henninger who, along with American wife Jo (Jessica Chastain), finds himself in a twisting moral dilemma. While driving to an extravagant party at rich, eccentric
Read moreFilm review: ‘BULLET TRAIN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Bullet Train is one of the most irritating films so far this year: a manic, juvenile, cartoonish pastiche of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino that substitutes caricature for character and a loose collection of violent, yet dull sight gags for plot. Based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, the film sees a gaggle of professional killers: American
Read moreFilm review: ‘OFFICIAL COMPETITION’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Having opened the Moro Spanish Film Festival earlier in the year and now screening in general release is the movie industry satire, Official Competition. The film, which stars two of Spain’s most famous actors, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, is largely a dig at weird, egotistical actors and the slightly ridiculous world they inhabit. Penelope Cruz plays lauded arthouse director
Read moreFilm review: ‘The Black Phone’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Hi folks. Here’s the review of latest film for writer/ director, Scott Derrickson, The Black Phone, starring Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw, as heard on ‘Built For Speed’ on Fri 15th July 2022.
Read moreFilm review: ‘COMPARTMENT NO.6’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Cannes Grand Prix award winning Finnish film Compartment No. 6 is a surprisingly and impressively gritty and moody take on the romantic drama genre. Here, young Finnish woman Laura (Seidi Haarla) leaves her lover, Russian academic Irina (Dinara Drukarova) in Moscow to travel to Russia’s frozen north in Murmansk to view ancient petroglyphs (i.e. rock carvings). The train journey
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