Archive for 2010

September 01 2010

The Expendables

posted by Steven Shaw at 2:45 pm

The Expendables

The Expendables Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Randy Couture

How we laughed. I’m not a huge fan of Sly Stallone, half the time I can’t understand his lines and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone there. That said, he’s relatively articulate in this shit-kicker of an action film about a crack team of mercenaries.

The Expendables — with a name like that it’s as if they’re willing the mission to fail — are played by Stallone, Jason (The Transporter) Statham and a few others including…

September 01 2010

From the 2009 award-winning Bollywood box office hit Magadheera.

August 31 2010

Calling bullshit on this Cancer scare: Spotted this at the supermarket…”Oh, no! Miss Universe 1983 has Cancer? How awful!” But a quick scan of the actual story from the NZ Woman’s Weekly reveals that the former Dancing with the Star winner Lorraine Downes hasn’t got the big C, but that she’s doing some charity work with children with cancer and building her public profile. Talk about crying wolf!…

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August 27 2010

Western Line Trio

Western Line Trio, Sunday at La Zeppa

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August 27 2010

When it comes to phoned interviews, You can’t get any more real than talking to a Louisiana-born legend of swamp-pop. Warren Storm is 73 and has been playing drums and singing soulful vocals since the 1950s.

Back in 1958, his version of the old country tune “Prisoner’s Song” and its flip-side “Mama Mama Mama (Look What Your Little Boy’s Done)” met with chart success, selling a quarter of a million copies…

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