Film review: HIT AND RUN, from Built For Speed

Hit and Run is a middling crime comedy that often plays like Tarantino-lite.  In an in advisable piece of multi-tasking Dax Shepard (from TV’s Parenthood) writes, co-directs and stars in this film.  While there are amusing, exciting and even insightful moments, a different set of eyes may have helped him avoid some of this film’s flat spots and half-baked gags.

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Megan Bernard Live Sunday Session this Sunday

Megan Bernard is a singer/songwriter/guitarist based in Melbourne. Her self penned music sits comfortably in the Alternative Pop genre, but she still can “bust out” on her renowned turquoise blue strat. Megan’s love affair with the guitar was elevated in 2002 at the age of seventeen when she moved to Melbourne to study jazz improvisation. A natural songwriter, her lyrics are honest,

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Film review: TYRANNOSAUR from Built For Speed

Don’t take the kids to this one.  Tyrannosaur has nothing to do with dinosaurs or special effects, this is a brutal English working class drama about domestic violence and pathological self-loathing.  This depressing yet utterly engrossing story may even beat Snow Town for its depiction of dysfunctional, disenfranchised people. Go-to guy for intense middle-aged hard men, Peter Mullan plays Joseph

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THE PURPLE HAZE ARCHIVE presents DAVID McWILLIAMS: A TRIBUTE PODCAST

  David McWilliams celebrated singer songwriter from Northern Ireland best known for the classic hit “The Days of Pearly Spencer” sadly died January 8, 2002. This tribute come chronological history features David McWilliams‘ wife Gil & Sjef Kolen from the Netherlands, the webmaster of the David McWilliams website. David McWilliams Official Website: http://www.davidmcwilliams.com/ Purple Haze is sponsored by Classic Cars with

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