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

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Homer’s epic tale The Odyssey, which describes Odysseus’ tumultuous journey home to his family and his Kingdom of Ithaca following the Trojan War presents not only a thrilling adventure but a psychological landscape of human struggle against the forces besieging us in life.  Its influence on literature, storytelling and culture is immeasurable having inspired countless works including James Joyce’s Ulysses,

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Film review: ‘3,000 YEARS OF LONGING’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Despite being directed by the revered George Miller, containing some inspired and quite startling moments and starring two of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the oddball romantic fantasy and storytelling tribute, 3,000 Years Of Longing doesn’t entirely work.  The title sounds like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel but George Miller and Augusta Gore wrote the film’s

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