Film review: ‘MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The fun, inventive, hyper-energetic but sometimes (for adults) headache-inducing world of our little animated buddies, the Minions, continues with Minions: The Rise of Gru. This one takes us back to the mid-70 s and criminal genius Gru’s nascent years as an aspiring super villain.  Here, the 11-year-old primary school student Gru (Steve Carrell) dreams of joining his heroes, a super

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

Steadily emerging as one of the most interesting contemporary filmmakers, Alex Garland, who intrigued and unnerved us with his AI thriller Ex Machina, brings us his creepiest film yet, the oddball horror misogyny parable, Men.  As anyone who has seen the evil, shiny, puppet-like face in the promo will realise, there’s something decidedly sinister at work in this film. Here,

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Film review: ‘A HERO’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is one of the great auteurs of contemporary cinema. His distinctly low-key humanist dramas immerse us in the minutiae of Iranian people’s lives and through their stories he subtly but powerfully explores aspects of Iranian society, culture and politics.   His latest film, the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner, A Hero, is no different and has

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