Film review: ‘Babygirl’. By Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Babygirl is a bold, visually seductive, funny but repetitive psychological drama from Bodies, Bodies, Bodies director Halina Reijin.  The film touches on a range of themes including sexual hang-ups, office politics, lifelong trauma, social rules and the collision of different forms of power – particularly corporate and gender – in the uncertain context of a changing economy and society. The

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

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies is an occasionally clever but mostly annoying, collision of whodunit thriller and millennial culture making it a cacophony of catchphrases and social media references occasionally interspersed by killings. The film employs the familiar set up of a group of friends – in this case mostly loud, obnoxious, twenty-something rich kids – converging on a sprawling mansion for

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