Film review: YOUTH from ‘Built For Speed’

With its meticulously composed shots, remote Alpine hotel setting and all-pervading quirkiness, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth immediately recalls the films of Wes Anderson. In the end, though, this meditation on ageing mortality and artistic ambition offers something more confronting than Anderson’s typical comical weirdness. Michael Caine stars as revered classical composer and conductor Fred Ballinger who, for initially mysterious reasons, has

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Film review: PRISONERS, from Built For Speed

The wonderfully tense and gruelling kidnap drama Prisoners is one of the year’s best films.  Relentlessly gripping and often disturbing, the film depicts a parent’s worst nightmare as two little girls mysteriously disappear from a Thanksgiving Day celebration. With the police investigation floundering, one of the girls’ Fathers, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and the investigating detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) resort

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