Film review: MIFF 2022. ‘HIDE AND SEEK’ from ‘Built For Speed’
Hi folks, Here’s the audio of our review of the MIFF 2022 feature film: ‘Hide and Seek’.
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Film review: ‘THE FORGIVEN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The dark, erudite, acerbic, if somewhat repetitive drama, The Forgiven, is a confronting story of guilt, vengeance and the clash of western and middle eastern cultures. Ralph Fiennes plays the bitterly cynical alcoholic doctor, David Henninger who, along with American wife Jo (Jessica Chastain), finds himself in a twisting moral dilemma. While driving to an extravagant party at rich, eccentric
Read moreFilm 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
Read moreFilm review: ‘COMPARTMENT NO.6’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The Cannes Grand Prix award winning Finnish film Compartment No. 6 is a surprisingly and impressively gritty and moody take on the romantic drama genre. Here, young Finnish woman Laura (Seidi Haarla) leaves her lover, Russian academic Irina (Dinara Drukarova) in Moscow to travel to Russia’s frozen north in Murmansk to view ancient petroglyphs (i.e. rock carvings). The train journey
Read moreFilm review: ‘ELVIS’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
Baz Luhrmann is one of the least subtle directors of recent times. Perhaps only Michael Bay and Oliver Stone in the 90’s top him for obviousness and outrageousness. Having Baz direct a film about Elvis Presley who, at least in the latter part of his life, was known for excess and an extravagant lifestyle, promised to be a sensory assault.
Read moreFilm 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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