Film review ‘WISH’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Wish, which has been released as part of Disney studios 100th birthday is a cute, occasionally charming but underwhelming animated musical fantasy that attempts to pay homage to Disney classics. Like many Disney and other animated features of the last few years, it’s about a feisty but uncertain young woman empowering herself through a fight with a nasty authority figure. 

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Film review: ‘3,000 YEARS OF LONGING’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Despite being directed by the revered George Miller, containing some inspired and quite startling moments and starring two of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the oddball romantic fantasy and storytelling tribute, 3,000 Years Of Longing doesn’t entirely work.  The title sounds like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel but George Miller and Augusta Gore wrote the film’s

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