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

Guaranteed to fascinate and infuriate, the Australian/ Irish co-production The Surfer, which stars Nicolas Cage and Julian McMahon is an impressively strange beast. Frequently shifting gears between Wake In Fright-style ‘civilised foreigner meets Aussie ferals’ drama, surreal Twilight Zone-esque moral fable and a critique of the idiotic ‘manosphere’ culture, it constantly challenges our expectations. Fans of the criminally overlooked 1968

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Film review: ‘LONG LEGS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The thriller Long Legs has been touted as one of the scariest films of recent times and even a modern horror classic. It’s neither of these things and will probably wind up as one of the year’s most overrated movies but that shouldn’t dissuade people from seeing it as this is still an impressively stylish and creepy film. This movie

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Film review: ‘DREAM SCENARIO’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli’s strange psychological drama, Dream Scenario joins Beau Is Afraid, Poor Things, Babylon and various others in the impressive roster of inventively odd recent films. In one of his career best performances, Nicolas Cage stars as evolutionary biology professor Paul Mathews, a seemingly ordinary chap who becomes the centre of a bizarre social phenomena. People begin reporting that

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

Through his often crazed screen presence, Nic Cage has become a strange pop cultural icon and his films have almost become a subgenre unto themselves. His kooky charisma is given full licence to go into hyperdrive as he plays none other than Count Dracula in the slightly bonkers action/ horror comedy Renfield. Despite the imposing presence of Mr Cage, the

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Film review: ‘COLOUR OUT OF SPACE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Colour Out of Space crosses two film genres, the b-grade horror movie and the Nicolas Cage going nuts movie. Consequently, the film, while technically well-made, will have mostly cult interest and may leave general moviegoers scratching their noggins. Set in the present day but based on a 1927 short story by that pervasive sci-fi horror influence, author HP Lovecraft, Colour

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Film review: THE CROODS, from Built For Speed

The Croods is an animated film about a family of cave people which might sound like a thinly disguised rehash of The Flintstones but it’s actually a thinly disguised but very well made, rehash of most family-oriented animated films of the last few decades. The eponymous Croods are a prehistoric family whose lives are, not surprisingly, ruled by fear of

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