Film review: J. EDGAR from Built for Speed

It seems to be the year for biopics of controversial conservative icons, first it was Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, now it’s infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leo Di Caprio) in the rather uninventively titled J. Edgar. The film portrays most of the major events in Hoover’s professional life including the search for Charles Lindbergh’s baby, his pursuit

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What’s on Built for Speed, Friday 10th February, 2012

It’s time once again for Built for Speed’s classic album retrospective and this month its the debut album by guitar god Jimi Hendrix and his band the Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced”. An iconic figure of a slightly different ilk is J. Edgar Hoover and this week we review the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic J. Edgar. We also review Sam

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