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Michelle Shocked’s Anti Gay Rant Results in Gig Cancellations
Update, March 21: San Francisco Bay Guardian was able to acquire an audio recording of the comments in question. March 17, 2013, folk singer Michelle Shocked had a concert at Yoshi’s in San Francisco. She chose that venue and concert to deliver an anti-gay rant that has many using the descriptive “hate”. Reports are unclear…
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Review: “Mama” Is Topping Box Office For a reason.
Title: Mama (2013) Director: Andrés Muschietti (Mama, short) Cast: Jessica Chastain (“The Help”, “Zero Dark Thirty”, “Take Shelter“), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones“, “Kingdom Of Heaven“, “Blackhawk Down”), Megan Charpentier (“Supernatural“, “Jennifer’s Body“, “Resident Evil”), Isabelle Nélisse (“Whitewash”) Synopsis: Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest…
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Destination: Cambodia
Charlotte Kinzie / Kamloops, BC In 2005 my husband, Joel, and I traveled to Cambodia. Joel was a seasoned traveler. I had been to a few countries in Europe and on a lot of camping trips in Canada but that was the extent of my experience. I was willing and excited! During our stay in…
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Photos: Near Tranquille
Images by C.Kinzie | Kamloops, BC, Canada It’s been a strange winter. Months of too warm and now a lot of snow. It doesn’t stop trips up into the hills.
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Review: “Seven Psychopaths” and All The Best Actors
Films about killers are made better with humor. It eases the viewer into suddenly realizing that they’re feeling sympathetic toward characters who are killing people. It’s sneaky and I love it. Films where people get into an inordinate amount of trouble without really trying also please me. Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken in the same…
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Celebrities, Privacy and Fans: A Tangle
Let’s talk about Jodie Foster. Last night at the Golden Globe awards award-winning actor, Jodie Foster came out. I think. It was a rather long and convoluted acceptance speech after Foster was announced as the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille award. I also think that she announced she was retiring from acting but I’m not…
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Review: Apartment 143
I like horror movies; that’s no secret. In particular, I enjoy horror movies that are more traditional. There’s a place for slasher films but I’d much rather watch a good ghost story. “Apartment 143” has a lot of the things that I really enjoy in a good scary movies. There were a few moments when…
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Movies We’ve Been Watching
The Silent House IMDB: Trapped inside her family’s lakeside retreat, a young woman finds she is unable to contact the outside world as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house. I wanted to like this because I really admire Elizabeth Olson’s work. But – sad to say – it’s pretty bad. I’m always quite…
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Review: Sherlock Holmes VS Dracula
What if Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson had applied their world renown investigative talent to some of the world’s supernatural mysteries? What if, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson heard about a mysterious boat that crashed ashore; the crew missing and the Captain lashed to the helm? Things might be even more intriguing if the usual vampires fighting team of…
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Review: “Red Lights”
There have been quite a few movies about paranormal investigation teams encountering a phenomenon they can’t explain. Perhaps the greatest in this genre was “Poltergeist“. I will never forget the look on the scientist’s face when his steak began crawling across the counter. There’s no steak in “Red Lights” but there’s a hell of a plot and…
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Matthew Hutchinson of “Hated” Talks Music On & Off Screen
Matthew Hutchinson is a busy man. Not only has he lived all over the world but he’s a musician, singer, and an actor. Some of his fans from Australia may be familiar with “Our Mountain” – though they’ve since relocated to New York where they’re breaking into the US music scene. Hutchinson did some acting…
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