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Film review: KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

With funny, street smart, cartoonishly violent gangster movies like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch Guy Ritchie was, in the 1990’s, being touted as Britain’s answer to Quentin Tarantino. Unfortunately, his recent, confusingly-plotted, over-the-top, near-indigestible offerings such as the Sherlock Holmes movies and the irritating Rock’n’Rolla have seen him become more like Britain’s answer to Michael Bay. Consequently,

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Film review: GET OUT, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

A strange mash-up of M Night Shyamalan’s better work and Meet the Parents, the socially perceptive, comedy-inflected horror film Get Out is an impressive directorial debut for Jordan Peel. Here, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is the boyfriend nervously heading to a first encounter with his girlfriend’s parents. He’s particularly anxious because his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) hasn’t mentioned to

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

Celebrated and provocative French director Francois Ozon’s latest film Frantz is a slow-moving but undeniably affecting piece of cinematic art. Set in 1919 with Europe physically and emotionally scarred by the First World War, the film focuses on young German woman Anna (Paula Beer) whose fiancée Frantz (Anton von Lucke) was killed in the trenches in France. Visiting the cemetery

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 2nd June 2017

This week ‘Built For Speed’ casts a critical eye over two big commercial cinema releases, the latest ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ and (believe it or not) a big screen adaptation of ‘Baywatch’ which stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Zac Efron.  There’s plenty of great music with favourites and new tracks from Australia and

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 26th May 2017

This week ‘Built For Speed’ takes you from one extreme of the cinema world to another as we review ‘Whitely’, a documentary about the iconic Australian artist and then tell you if Guy Ritchie’s medieval adventure, ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ does the famous tale justice.  We also have plenty of fine tunes with some 80’s and 90’s classics

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 19th May 2017

This week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at one of the more intriguing films of 2017, psychological thriller ‘Get Out’.  We also review one of less intriguing films of 2017, the Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn comedy ‘Snatched’.  There’ll be plenty of fine tunes new and old with recent releases from Cable Ties, The Pink Tiles and many others as

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