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#TEAMSTIL PRESENTS THE 2021
CHRISTMAS KARMA COME-UP!
A few years ago we wanted to find a way to use Facebook to give back. We wanted something that allowed us to be creative, something that people would hold dear, and something that would give back to the community who has supported us in the glass business since 1998. The result is the Christmas Karma Come-Up, which raises funds for animals in need. How it works is that every person on staff, from most experienced to newest, took their own time to make glass icicle ornaments for your Christmas tree or as a gift. But how does this increase your Karma score? These ornaments are only 5 dollars and the ENTIRE 5 dollars will be donated to Miranda’s Rescue. That means that we get to make something you will enjoy, you get to keep a locally made glass ornament or give it as a gift, and YOU also get credit for helping to save the animals. WIN! WIN! WIN! Please spread this post and help the beasts. I would like to mention that our shop dogs Copper and Penny are Humboldt super mutts and we could not be happier with them in our lives. So now we are working hard making more icicles and we look forward to seeing you at the shop to score your Christmas Karma Come Up! Psyching myself up for a holiday party in a pandemic. The Unforgiveable
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The Unforgiveable and Belfast By John J. Bennett
screens@northcoastjournal.com THE UNFORGIVEABLE. Despite the occasional — frequent? — foray into forgettable, if not regrettable, studio pap, Sandra Bullock continues to build on a career as one of the hardest working, most dependable, most bankable stars in Hollywood. And, like fellow stalwart Halle Berry, she persists in doing so despite the active, often aggressive, always malignant sexism and misogyny inherent in her industry and American culture at large (though obviously without the racism Berry has been plagued by). She has had prominent roles in major Hollywood movies almost every year, since the early 1990s and for much of that time has worked as a producer on her own starring projects and others. All while navigating the fire-swamp of a culture obsessed with celebrity and a virulent strain of media determined to expose the personal lives of people living in the public eye. She’s the American movie badass and, while I may not like every movie she makes, I have nothing but respect for her strength, composure and acumen. So, while this is a brief discussion about an interesting new movie — one of substance, I might add — it is also very much about the new Sandra Bullock movie. The first English language feature from German director Nora Fingsheidt, The Un-
forgivable is an adaptation (by Peter Craig, Hilary Seitz and Courtenay Miles) of the 2009 U.K. mini-series Unforgiven (I guess Clint owns that title for our purposes) created by Sally Wainwright. Ruth Slater (Bullock), in the opening moments, is being released from prison in Washington state. She has served 20 years for the murder of a Snohomish sheriff (W. Earl Brown) who was attempting (gently, it should be said) to evict Ruth and her 5-year-old sister from the farmhouse where they had lived with their parents, lately deceased. Re-emerging, Ruth finds herself unalterably branded a cop-killer. The carpentry job she had been promised is summarily denied her without documented cause and anyone who knows about her past stands in judgment. Having taken a night job at a fish-processing plant and a dayshift building a community center for the homeless, Ruth finds a way out of the chaotic, dangerous halfway house where she had been staying. She minds her own business, even starting to befriend a coworker (Jon Bernthal), but then things start to unravel. Tortured by estrangement from her little sister, Ruth returns to the farmhouse, Continued on next page » northcoastjournal.com • Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021 • NORTH COAST JOURNAL
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