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

After the disappointment of his last sci-fi outing, the ambitious but confusing, inert and miscast Interstellar, Christopher Nolan returns with a film as gargantuan in scope, complexity, running time and likelihood of dividing audiences in Tenet. It seems Nolan’s quest with this film was to make the most confusing time travel movie ever.  Apparently, the Spierig brothers’ Predestination, where characters

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Film review: MAPS TO THE STARS, from Built For Speed.

From Day of the Locust’s nightmarish vision of a perverse and corrupt Hollywood to Mulholland Drive’s dream of stardom turned nightmare, many films have explored the bizarre and disturbing underbelly of Hollywood.  David Cronenberg’s latest film, Maps To The Stars explores this world through the director’s typically bizarre and unsettling vision. In Cronenberg’s nihilistic take on tinsel town, Hollywood is

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