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

A film that focuses on the period in which Mary Shelly wrote her sci-fi horror classic Frankenstein should be a thrilling prospect for anyone with a literary bent but director and co-writer Haifaa al-Mansour has transformed the biopic, Mary Shelley, into a slightly steamy, mildly gothic romance between two Derek Zoolander-approved really really good-looking people. Elle Fanning plays Mary Wollstonecraft

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 6th July 2018

This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ reviews the hotly-anticipated sequel to 2015’s ‘Sicario’ with ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’.  We also take a look at gothic romance and literary icons with ‘Mary Shelley’.  There’s many fines tunes with new Aussie tracks, classics featuring legendary guitarists and drummers and an assortment of indie rock from across the decades.  Don’t forget our regular preview

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