Coming Soon To Behind The Scenes

This is a new section for me on my website, just to bring you, the reader up to date on a few things. Next month is going to be my 14th year doing this website, and with that, I have been thinking about venturing off the beaten path I have made for myself and trying some different things. Not to worry, there will be lots of movies, TV, music, etc as usual, however, I am looking at doing some extra things, what they are entirely I am not sure. But, I know that it will not be news, sports, or politics, we all know there are a lot of sources for all that already.

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I am getting back to the interviews again. I will share them on my website and with the post will have the interview with the artist's music, film trailer, etc.

I have a few that are confirmed this month, with a few more to come.

APRIL 16

INTERVIEW WITH DÅÅTH

Tuesday, April 16th

I just did a feature post on the band a few days ago and on Thursday I was asked if I would like to interview them.

Thank you to Liz Ciavarella-Brenner with Earsplit PR for making this happen.

Lauded progressive death metal outfit DÅÅTH has emerged from its thirteen-year hiatus with a new album, The Deceivers, set for release May 3rd via Metal Blade Records.

INTERVIEW WITH MARCELA BOVIO

Tuesday, April 23

I first saw Marcela back in 2015, when I was reviewing Ayreon's The Theater Equation.

It's a live concert that was recorded & taped in front of a live audience.

I was so taken by it, I was fortunate to have been sent a physical copy of the CD with the video of it as well.

I contacted her via her website and she responded and said that she would be happy to do an interview with me.

I have been following her on Facebook and she recently made a post of her singing an opera song by Purcell, Thy Hand, Belinda, When I Am Laid--see the video below;

click here

                    

                       INTERVIEW WITH STEVE MANN-LIONHEART

WEDNESDAY APRIL 24TH

Steve Mann (MSG, ex-Liar) - lead guitar/backing vocals

Lionheart's new album came out on March 15th, it has been a while in the planning stages, but I will be interviewing him on April 24.

Thank you to Nathan Birk with Metalville for making this happen.

As soon as the previous album The Reality of Miracles hit the shelves in 2020, LIONHEART knuckled down to record the next one, deciding early on that this time they would produce a concept album. The record centers around WW2, but the band very much wanted to make this an anti-war album, while at the same time remembering those who fought for our freedom.

Video for 'Flight 19' --click here:

                      

Unconfirmed, but coming soon---Lee Aaron---Drowning Pool

The Hot Docs Film Festival is back for another year and runs from 

Thu, Apr 25, 2024 – Sun, May 5, 2024.

I have been sent a few of the documentaries for this year's festival to review, with more on the way in the next few days.

Link for the festival -----click here

I have been sent all of the shorts for this wonderful Vancouver film festival. 

Now in its 25th year, it's unlike any film festival that I have been fortunate enough to cover. 

I first covered the festival back in 2016.

link for their website here

Fun. Fast. Crazy8s!

Running since 1999, Crazy8s is an annual 8-day short filmmaking challenge that provides support and funding to 6 emerging filmmakers to produce a short film, and provides training opportunities to crew and cast. After a Gala Screening and Afterparty, the films go on to be seen by audiences worldwide at film festivals and on other distribution channels.

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REVIEWS COMING SOON FOR APRIL!

THE COFFEE TABLE

Original title: La mesita del comedor

THE COFFEE TABLE follows Jesus and Maria, a couple going through a difficult time in their relationship. Nevertheless, they have just become parents. To shape their new life, they decide to buy a new coffee table. A decision that will change their existence.

In DUSK FOR A HITMAN, Hitman, Donald Lavoie faces an impossible order: eliminate his own family for mob boss Claude Dubois. Detectives offer him a way out by making him their informant, putting Donald in a perilous balancing act between loyalty and survival.

Although this story is inspired by real-life events from the life of Donald Lavoie, the other characters and their relationships with any other character, incidents, locations, and dialogues have been fictionalized or invented for dramatic purposes.

Any resemblance to a living or historical person is purely for the purpose of fiction.

Really no words can help explain this movie, you just have to see it.

For now, here is the trailer--click here

In the tense thriller CASH OUT, John Travolta is Mason, leader of a high-end crew of thieves that hang it up for good after a double-cross spells a near miss with the law. But when he’s thrust into his younger brother Shawn’s hare-brained scheme to rob a bank – and tempted by what could be his biggest score ever – Mason jumps right back into his old ways. Then the heist goes awry, and the thieves are trapped inside the bank with hostages while surrounded by SWAT teams, the FBI, and Interpol. Included among the authorities waiting to nab the crew is someone Mason knows well: lead negotiator Decker (Kristin Davis) — Mason’s former lover. 

Steve Joe is a traditional archaeologist with the Moquohat Nation. Down on his luck, with bad things befalling him and others, Steve wants to set things right. The ancestors demand the repatriation of sacred artifacts so loved ones can finally be at rest, including a loved one whose tragic death haunts Steve in his sleep. Alas, the artifacts are in the hands of the dreaded Royal Western Canadian Museum, who's shipping the First Nations exhibition to Europe so "white peoples can gawk." So, turning to others on the Rez, Steve assembles a crack team of burglars while trying to bamboozle a wealthy and diabolical Russian mobster obsessed with collecting artifacts.

Based on a remarkable true story, Unsung Hero follows David Smallbone as he moves his family from Down Under to the States, searching for a brighter future after his successful music company collapses. With nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and their love of music, David (for KING + COUNTRY’s Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives. Helen’s faith stands against all odds and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs. With their own dreams on hold, David and Helen begin to realize the musical prowess in their children, who would go on to become two of the most successful acts in Inspirational Music history: five-time GRAMMY Award®-winning artists for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James.