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1917 is Underwater and in the Line of Duty with Crypsis

It's Friday night once again, and that means it's time for another round of entertainment news, reviews and shenanigans as only The Basement Boys can deliver them. And it gets underway at 6:05 tonight, only on the mighty Radio NL 610 AM Kamloops! What's on deck this evening? There's the rundown of all your weekend entertainment options, including tonight's retro screening of John Carpenter's The Thing at the Paramount Theatre. There's also a Thrash Wrestling event at Cactus Jack's Nightclub tomorrow night, and Jason and Shawn will fill you in on that. And Jason caught the recent Digital releases Line of Duty and Crypsis, and has a few words to say about each. Meanwhile Shawn dug into Netflix's new Dracula series. Are these worth your time and VOD dollar? Stick with us! But wait, there's more. Like conversations about the poor placement of ads on YouTube and too-serious television, plus some other irreverent conversations about irreverent ...

The death of a movie theatre?

News dropped late last night that Landmark Cinemas is closing the Paramount Theatre in our home town of Kamloops. The theatre is a landmark indeed, having entertained moviegoers since 1955. Landmark stated that closing the theatre is a business decision, meaning attendance at the old movie house has been on the decline for a while. The last movie I caught there was Overlord back in November, and it was not well attended.