Tag: Sweet Country

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

Sweet Country is the latest film from director Warwick Thornton who gave us one of the great Australian films of recent times, Sampson and Delilah. Confronting, powerful and visually startling, Sweet Country is almost as remarkable a piece of filmmaking as Sampson and Delilah, only falling short due to a slightly loose and rambling script. Evoking films such as the Searchers,

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 26th January 2017

It’s movie awards season and there’s plenty of fine films around at the moment.  This week ‘Built For Speed’ gives you the official opinion on two of them: Oscar hopeful ‘I, Tonya’ starring Margot Robbie and Warwick Thornton’s confronting new drama ‘Sweet Country’.  Also, it’s a special music feast this week as we countdown our all-time favourite rock vocalists and

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