Film review: THE HATEFUL EIGHT, from ‘Built For Speed’

Since the superb Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino’s films haven’t been entirely convincing. Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained all had inventive, exciting and funny moments but the storylines were an unsatisfying jumble of ideas tainted by questionable morality. Tarantino’s latest film, The Hateful Eight, is an improvement but still suffers some of the same problems; there’s a number of

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 22nd January 2016

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we review the film that caused a sensation in Melbourne this week when its director Quentin Tarantino and its stars Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell made an appearance at a screening, The Hateful Eight.  We also take a look at a star-studded film that explores the origins of the GFC, The Big Short.  There’ll

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