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

David Fincher’s latest film Mank may be a little perplexing for those who don’t have an abiding love of movies, particularly the film often considered Hollywood’s finest, Citizen Kane.  Mank depicts the period in the 1930’s in which renowned screenwriter and according to the film, gambling-addicted drunk, Herman J Mankiewicz aka Mank (Gary Oldman) toiled on the script for Kane

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THE PURPLE HAZE ARCHIVE presents ALAN PARSONS on PODCAST

Alan Parsons initially commenced his career as a back room expert working for EMI & at Abbey Road studios where he was involved in many outstanding record albums including two of the most iconic in all of rock music history, those being The Beatles’ Abbey Road & Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. He then formed an extremely productive

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