Film review ‘DUNE: PART 2’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

In 2021, Denis Villeneuve’s first instalment in his cinematic version of Frank Herbert’s iconic 1965 science fiction novel Dune saw young, floppy-haired Duke, Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) battle the invading armies of the nefarious Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard) before becoming a desert dwelling, giant sand worm-loving freedom fighter.  It was essentially a sci fi Lawrence of Arabia. While technically impressive

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Film review: ‘The Hunger Games: The ballad of songbirds and snakes’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The dystopian sci-fi film series, The Hunger Games was hugely successful and a cultural touchstone for many young cinema goers (but not so much this reviewer).  Through those films, Jennifer Lawrence established herself as a major star playing heroine, Katniss Everdeen who, in a post-apocalyptic future, competed in the eponymous televised teen gladiator death matches and battled the fictional nation

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

For many, the Wachowski’s original 1999 Matrix movie – which depicted a freedom fighting cyber hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) battling to free humanity from a computer simulated world – was a sensation. Many talked about being blown away by its hyper-kinetic action sequences and never-before-seen computer generated special effects which included a slow-motion style known as ‘bullet time’.  A

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 10th December 2021

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we tell you all about Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s crack at that treacherous Mt Everest of filmmaking, the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel ‘Dune’.  Also, as we head toward the end of 2021 and our end of year, ‘best of’ spectacular, we take a look back at the best music of

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