Film review: THE LAST IMPRESSARIO, from Built For Speed

The documentary The Last Impresario, which was written and directed by Miranda Otto’s sister Gracie, – chronicles the career of theatre and film producer Michael White.  If that name isn’t familiar to you, don’t worry as this film trades on the idea that White is the most famous person we’ve never heard of.  Consequently, the film takes great pleasure in

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Film review: PENGUINS 3D, from Built For Speed

IMAX documentary, Penguins 3D is really a typical 40-minute David Attenborough TV doco just on a bigger screen and in 3D. The Attenborough imprimatur is always a mark of quality, though and this penguin expose maintains his high standards. The film takes us to the extremely remote Southern Ocean Island of South Georgia where vast colonies of king penguins, sometimes

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Film review: BLENDED, from Built For Speed

Adam Sandler’s irritating and embarrassingly juvenile comedies represent some of recent cinema’s lowest points.  The few bright lights in his dismal oeuvre have usually co-starred Drew Barrymore whose screwball comic talents and considerable charm have, in films like The Wedding Singer and Fifty First Dates, managed to neutralise Sandler’s whiny obnoxiousness. The two are paired again in Blended a film

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Film review: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY, from Built For Speed

Attractively shot atmospheric thriller The Two Faces of January owes a considerable debt to films of the past. It’s filled with Hitchcockian paranoia and Bernard Herman-esque music, it takes place in a European setting reminiscent of Agatha Christie film adaptations and like The Talented Mr Ripley, it sees a strange and ambitious young man invade the lives of attractive and

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UPCOMING ON THE LIVE SUNDAY SESSIONS

Check out some of the excellent acts coming up on the Live Sunday Sessions over the next few Sunday afternoons!! August 3 – Gretta Ziller August 10 – Devil Monkey October 5 – Mercury White Live Sunday Sessions every Sunday afternoon 4-5m, live music acts in the studio just playing and saying.

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THE PURPLE HAZE ARCHIVE presents POP LEGEND TOMMY JAMES on PODCAST

Join Tommy James as he talks about his fruitful music career starting when he was a very young teenager right up to the present day. “Hanky Panky”, “Mony Mony”, “I Think We’re Alone Now” & the legendary multi-million seller “Crimson & Clover” are all  discussed in fine detail, not to mention: the Mafia, Elvis Presley’s sidemen, the 80s Tommy James

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