The latest film for writer/ director Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know), the oddball comedy/ drama Kajillionaire is at first so irritatingly quirky, many will want to yell insults at the screen. Eventually – and we’re talking by about the last 20 minutes of the film – detractors should begin to embrace or least feel less enraged by
Read moreAfter the disappointment of his last sci-fi outing, the ambitious but confusing, inert and miscast Interstellar, Christopher Nolan returns with a film as gargantuan in scope, complexity, running time and likelihood of dividing audiences in Tenet. It seems Nolan’s quest with this film was to make the most confusing time travel movie ever. Apparently, the Spierig brothers’ Predestination, where characters
Read moreChristopher Nolan’s new film ‘Tenet’ has been been dubiously touted as some sort of spectacular panacea for the lockdown malaise. Is it thrilling or is it another Nolan film that, like the miscast ‘Interstellar’, disappears down a rabbit hole? Find out this Friday on ‘Built For Speed’. When we’re not dissecting overlong sci-fi action films we’re playing lots of stunning
Read moreThis week on ‘Built for Speed’ we’ll take a look at the latest film from director Miranda July, the uber-quirky comedy/drama,’Kajillionaire’ starring Evan Rachel Wood. We’ll also treat you to more of the magnificent new music you may have missed during the ‘Built For Speed’ hiatus as well as indie and classic rock favourites from times past. Don’t forget our
Read moreThese days, it’s almost a spoiler to use the term ‘Liam Neeson film’ as, for the last decade most of his movies have just been a waiting game for Neeson’s gruffly charming, taciturn character to reveal himself as an indestructible tough man on a morally righteous quest which usually involves shooting and beating the crap out of sneering scumbags. Honest
Read moreThe Trip to Greece is the fourth and purportedly last instalment in director Michael Winterbottom’s serio-comic travelogues starring Steve Coogan (best known as fictitious, cringe-inducing TV host Alan Partridge) and comic actor and quiz show host Rob Brydon. While adopting a slightly different approach to the three previous films, Trip to Greece won’t disappoint the series’ devotees. As fans of
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