The Pitch (Dec. 25 – Dec. 31)
You’re Welcome and I’m Sorry Merry Christmas Nelson! I hope you are all enjoying or looking forward to your present of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, which opened at The Civic on its release date. (And to…
I have a good feeling about this
Less than a week until Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. I’ll go to see it with my wife and children, mirroring the time I went to see the first Star Wars movie with my parents and brother.…
Chas’ Blog-Truth
Generally, I really look forward to a film with some creative involvement from Robert Redford. Ever since his first appearances with Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and 1973's The Sting I have been impressed with his…
Christmas is in our Hearts
This coming Saturday, December 12, beginnning at 2:00pm, we are hosting our second annual Home for the Holidays Winter Celebration of Family and Friends at The Civic Theatre. It’s our open house, featuring free films (the 50th Anniversary of A…
A Personal Selection of Holiday Movies
It's all too common at this time of year to see lists of the best holiday movies. Many include the same classic (and not so classic) films in various permutations. The entertaining Vox article, 5 ways The Night Before pays…
Han Shot First!
~ Brendan Quinn For a good chunk of Star Wars fans, George Lucas’ “Special Editions” were, unfortunately, the films that we grew up watching. It wasn’t until the Internet really took off in the late ‘90s that I discovered the…
Chas’ blog- The Walk
The Walk (2015) written by Robert Zemeckis and Christopher Browne, based on the Philippe Petit book "To Reach the Clouds" directed by Robert Zemeckis running time 123 minutes This film is prospectively engaging on so many levels and from several…
Climb Everest? Hell No!
I used to be one of those nut jobs that fantasized about climbing to the top of Mount Everest one day, despite having no mountaineering experience. Then some 18-odd years ago I read "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of…
Jumbo: Keeping It Wild
This summer I hiked up to Jumbo Pass with my family. This was the first opportunity I’d had to experience first-hand the part of the Central Purcell Mountain Range that Vancouver’s Glacier Resorts Ltd would turn into a massive year-round…
Naomi Klein – Environmentalist Rock Star
Naomi in the Kootenays My boyfriend and I had the privilege of seeing the lovely Naomi Klein at the MIR Centre for Peace this past April. We are huge fans of her work and were really quite star struck, but…
