Film review: ‘OFFICIAL COMPETITION’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Having opened the Moro Spanish Film Festival earlier in the year and now screening in general release is the movie industry satire, Official Competition.  The film, which stars two of Spain’s most famous actors, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, is largely a dig at weird, egotistical actors and the slightly ridiculous world they inhabit. Penelope Cruz plays lauded arthouse director

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Film review: ‘EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Everything Everywhere All At Once We recently bemoaned the dearth of original ideas in Hollywood with the roster of current and upcoming films stuffed with sequels, reboots and remakes. Whether or not the incredibly weird existential, sci fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once – the brainchild of writer/directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as ‘the Daniels’ –

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