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

Disney/ Pixar’s Elemental is a quirky, visually inventive, animated romance that serves more as a parable of multiculturalism, race relations and acceptance than as a traditional adventure comedy. The film takes the ancient philosophical notion of the world being composed of four essential elements: earth, air, fire and water and turns them into four populations of people who the inhabit

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Film review: ‘Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

I haven’t seen the first film in this series, 2018’s Into the Spiderverse but I was intrigued by the rapturous critical reception this animated Spiderman spin-off received.  Despite movie goers being pounded like a Hulk fist by CGI superhero extravaganzas, Spiderverse apparently offered something fresh and exciting.  For someone encountering this film world for the first time, the sequel, Spiderman:

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