David Fincher’s latest film Mank may be a little perplexing for those who don’t have an abiding love of movies, particularly the film often considered Hollywood’s finest, Citizen Kane. Mank depicts the period in the 1930’s in which renowned screenwriter and according to the film, gambling-addicted drunk, Herman J Mankiewicz aka Mank (Gary Oldman) toiled on the script for Kane
Read moreDespite all the obstacles we’ve confronted this year, there are a few summertime icons that can’t be denied: drunk bogans in Santa hats and the ‘Built For Speed’ Christmas Extravaganza. If you think Christmas songs are lame you will be proven wrong as we feature some magnificent Christmas tracks from bands of the calibre of The Kinks, Cheap Trick and
Read moreThe comedy-tinged drama Misbehaviour depicts the events surrounding the 1970 Miss World telecast in London when feminist activists staged a protest that plunged the event – hosted by Bob Hope – into chaos. The protests earned headlines around the world and put the women’s liberation movement on the map. It also saw an unexpected result to the competition itself that
Read moreWith Christmas hurtling ominously toward us, “Built For Speed’ will, this Friday, review the latest addition to that oddball cinema sub-genre the Christmas movie with comedy/ drama ‘Happiest Season’ starring Kristen Stewart. We’ll also have a feast of great music for you with more terrific tracks that have emerged in 2020, some of the favourites from our ‘best of’ lists
Read moreThe latest film for writer/ director Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know), the oddball comedy/ drama Kajillionaire is at first so irritatingly quirky, many will want to yell insults at the screen. Eventually – and we’re talking by about the last 20 minutes of the film – detractors should begin to embrace or least feel less enraged by
Read moreAfter the disappointment of his last sci-fi outing, the ambitious but confusing, inert and miscast Interstellar, Christopher Nolan returns with a film as gargantuan in scope, complexity, running time and likelihood of dividing audiences in Tenet. It seems Nolan’s quest with this film was to make the most confusing time travel movie ever. Apparently, the Spierig brothers’ Predestination, where characters
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