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Film review: ‘KINDS OF KINDNESS’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Like David Lynch in the 80’s and 90’s, Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos is bringing dark, surreal cinema to a mainstream audience. Some, however, feel his films are more about superficial weirdness and shock value than substance. Those calls might become a little louder with his latest piece of misanthropic mayhem the drama/ horror/ comedy triptych, Kinds of Kindness. While

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

Hi Built For Speed listeners, here’s my review of The Whale from Friday 3rd Feb 2023.

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

While it doesn’t always hit the mark, in its best moments the jet-black culinary comedy The Menu cleverly (and violently) skewers foodie pretention, the cult of celebrity chefs, the loss of artistic credibility and America’s unspoken class system. There are familiar flavours here with dashes of Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Haneke, disturbing dinner party dramas like Luis Bunuel’s The

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