Film review: ‘A HAUNTING IN VENICE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Following Murder on The Orient Express and Death On The Nile, A Haunting In Venice is the third entry in Kenneth Branagh’s vivid, energetic but at times erratic and overcooked Agatha Christie adaptations.  Like the two previous films, this one benefits from a few standout performances and its probing of detective Hercule Poirot’s formidable intellect and complex psyche.  More than

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Film review: ‘TALK TO ME’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Australian supernatural horror film, Talk To Me is a surprisingly effective variation on the old teens messing with the Ouija board concept. Here, Instead of a Ouija board, it’s a mysterious ceramic hand that, when held, causes people to have strange and disturbing visions, including seeing partly-decomposed dead people. Unwisely fiddling with this apparent magic is the troubled teen Mia

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Film review: ‘DRACULA: THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Dracula: The Last Voyage of The Demeter is an adaptation of a section entitled Captain’s Log from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula.  While director André Øvredal (Trollhunter, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) has conjured a tense and visceral horror story from this sliver of the novel, the source material’s limitations do show. The film sees the crew

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