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
Read moreAs 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
Read moreHitchcock, 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
Read moreTune in to Songs of Hope tomorrow (2013 01 13) to hear about bad droughts in Australia in the 1830s and 1890s. Time to air 8:45am
Read morePODCAST: 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
Read moreRadio Ga Ga is a show that invents a theme each week and bases its music selections for the week around that theme. This week on RGG we are remembering the “forgotten songs”. Yes, Ol ’55 had a hit with “On The Prowl” but do you remember “Two Faces Have I”?, Thin Lizzy belted out “The Boys Are Back In
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