Tag: Sam Neill

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

Palm Beach, the new Aussie relationship drama from director Rachel Ward, builds its story around a very familiar template: A group of older middle-aged, upper middle-class friends come together for a weekend where amiable socialising gives way to people venting hidden resentments, revealing past infidelities and lamenting personal disappointments. At the screening, star Bryan brown said the story was inspired

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

Sweet Country is the latest film from director Warwick Thornton who gave us one of the great Australian films of recent times, Sampson and Delilah. Confronting, powerful and visually startling, Sweet Country is almost as remarkable a piece of filmmaking as Sampson and Delilah, only falling short due to a slightly loose and rambling script. Evoking films such as the Searchers,

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