What’s on BUILT FOR SPEED, Friday 17th October 2014

This week on “Built For Speed” we take a look at two of the more fascinating films for 2014, The Case Against 8, a documentary about the battle for same sex marriage rights in the US and Force Majeure a Swedish drama that dissects marriage and its assumed gender roles.  There’s also plenty of fine music with some of the cover songs

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Film review: DRACULA UNTOLD, from Built For Speed

Dracula Untold is not about the suave count chomping on necks in present day America or Britain as old time Hammer Horror fans might hope.  Instead it takes the original story of Vlad the Impaler – a 15th century Transylvanian Prince whose reputation for cruelty toward his enemies partially inspired the vampire legend – and turns it into a moderately

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Film review: ANNABELLE, from Built For Speed

In the last decade a few films have used a distinctive approach to re-invigorate what was an ailing supernatural horror genre.  Paranormal Activity whipped up some decent scares with nerve jangling use of the found footage aesthetic while Aussie director James Wan’s box office hit The Conjuring effectively employed a no-frills 1970’s film making style as well as a respectful

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Film review: THE SKELETON TWINS, from Built For Speed

Mark Heyman, who wrote the script for Black Swan, seems fascinated with emotionally damaged people desperately trying to cope with or conceal personal disappointments, family trauma and the wounds of their past.  He has collaborated with writer/ director Craig Johnson and producers the Duplass brothers, who produced the wonderfully melancholic romantic fantasy Safety Not Guaranteed to give us the unsettling,

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Film review: LIFE OF CRIME, from Built For Speed

In 1997 Quentin Tarantino capped a remarkable decade-defining trio of films (that included Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) with Jackie Brown his superb adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. Perfect casting and indelible performances, particularly from Pam Grier and Tarantino’s muse Samuel L. Jackson, made Jackie Brown an intoxicatingly funny, moving, tense and romantic film. Understandably, a prequel to

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