Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 11th January 2013

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 11th  JANUARY 2013 1.   JERRY LEE LEWIS & JIMI PAGE – Rock’n’roll. 2.   DAVID BOWIE – Let’s spend the night together. 3.   THE NERVES – Hanging on the telephone. 4.   ZEKE – Rhiannon. 5.   JELLYFISH – No matter what. 6.   THE SAINTS – Lipstick on your collar. (Aus) 7.   ROB CRAW – Am I ever gonna

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Film review: GANGSTER SQUAD, from Built For Speed

Shifting awkwardly from solid crime-busting drama to cartoonish, ultra-violent action film, Gangster Squad doesn’t know if it wants to be The Untouchables or Dick Tracy.  Allegedly based on fact, the film depicts the nefarious empire of gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) a vicious New York hood and former boxer who, in the late 40’s, set up his own chapter of

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Film review: PARANORMAN, from Built For Speed

As a 3d animated film about a bullied kid combating creatures rising from the grave, Paranorman is like a less gothic cousin to Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) is an introverted kid who, like Hayley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, sees dead people.  His abilities make him an outcast at home and at school but also

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Film review: HITCHCOCK, from Built For Speed

Hitchcock, is a prosaic but still engrossing biopic of the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock (played here by Anthony Hopkins).  Based on the critically acclaimed Stephen Rebello book “Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho”, the film doesn’t provide an overview of Hitchcock’s life but instead focuses on a pivotal segment of it, in this case the making of what is

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THE PURPLE HAZE ARCHIVE presents THE ANNUAL TRIBUTE to DAVID McWILLIAMS 2013 PODCAST

PODCAST: Our Annual Tribute to Northern Irish singer songwriter David McWilliams best known for the classic song “Days of Pearly Spencer”. Our guest is Gil McWilliams, who was married to David McWilliams, all the way from Northern Ireland.  This tribute podcast concentrates on the many many worldwide covers of “Days of Pearly Spencer”. DAVID McWILLIAMS OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Here HURRY LAST WEEKS!!! Purple Haze is sponsored by

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