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Film review: WHIPLASH, from Built For Speed

Landing somewhere between Fame, Black Swan and Full Metal Jacket, Whiplash is a gut-wrenching music drama, which, while flawed, is still one of the year’s most riveting films. In its best moments this is a searing examination of bullying, the forces that compel people toward objectionable even maniacal behaviour, the obsessive pursuit of success and the limits of emotional endurance.

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Film review: JOBS, from Built For Speed

Is Jobs, the biopic of Apple founder the late Steve Jobs, a gratuitous corporate sell or an insightful critique of a complex and highly influential person? Actually, it’s a bit of both. Like David Fincher’s The Social Network, the film traces the ambitions, personal traumas and career trajectory of a brilliant but difficult computing pioneer. Jobs, however, is nowhere near

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