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CONTEST: Win Tickets To Camelbeach Waterpark

June 21, 2019 By Taylor Dickson

WDLC Country is back with another great contest for country summers.

Starting Monday, June 24 through Friday, July 5, WDLC Country is giving away tickets on air with Kevin Siegel on the Early Bird Special. Just listen during Kevin’s show from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. to win a pair of tickets to Camelbeach Waterpark in Tannersville, PA. These tickets are general admission tickets that are valid until the end of the 2019 season, which is Labor Day in September.

There are plenty of ways to tune in to WDLC Country and hear Kevin give away the tickets on air. You can listen at 107.7 or 95.3, even 1490 AM. Plus, you can stream us live at WDLCCountry.com, the WDLC Country App. We’re also on Alexa and Google Home!

Just a heads up, we’ll be celebrating Independence Day this year, just like you! So we will not hold this contest on July 4.

Wayne’s Word: Ralph Breaks The Internet

December 7, 2018 By Taylor Dickson

Written by Wayne Townsend


The 57th feature-length Disney film is a sequel to 2012 Wreck-it Ralph. A quick recap, the antagonist of a 1980’s arcade video game Ralph, discovers he isn’t merely a bad guy of a video game, but someone who has feelings and has been misunderstood by the other character’s that inhabit the central repository they retreat to after the video arcade closes for the evening. Six years into their friendship, Vanellope von Schweetz, star of her own game, existence is threatened due to the fact her game is broken, and the proprietor of the arcade is unwilling to pay for the replacement part. This motivates Ralph to venture onto the internet to search for the part when they find out it’s available on eBay. This is when the movie takes off. Product placement runs amok, an adept metaphor of internet usage. Disney reminds us that they own everything, Marvel Studios, Pixar, Star Wars, The Muppets just to name a few, with some characters from their respective universes, make an appearance. Yoda, R2D2, Ironman, are only a few. Every Disney princess appears with the voice talents of the original actresses reprising their roles. Ralph and Vanellope land into an internet racing game that Vanellope becomes enthralled with, but Ralph is afraid of due to the violent landscape. Internet controlled characters can “die,” but since Ralph and Vanellope are merely video game code, their deaths would be permanent. Vanellope wants to stay, but Ralph wants to get the part and return to the rote routine that the two of them have lived since the end of the first movie. This the main conflict of the film, Vanellope realizes the nature of their friendship will forever be changed and is sadden at the fact her decision may end her relationship with Ralph as suffers from insecurities as he sees her as his only. Mayhem ensues, as Ralph infects the internet game with a virus he obtained from the “dark web.” The depiction of Ralph descent to the place where shadowy figures live, (actual bugs represent the viruses) is just what an imaginative person would dream up if one had to visualize a computer “infection.” Ralph Breaks the Internet in a film that deals with the changing dynamic of friendship when one party wants to change the direction of their life, in this case, a career change, that forces the other to decide if the relationship can remain intact now that the parameters have been irrevocably altered. A life lesson all humans have faced at one time or other. Rated PG, this would be a good way for parents to explain how to deal with the emotions their child would feel when faced with a similar moment. For this, and for fear Disney has (probably) replaced “Big Brother,” Ralph Breaks the Internet receives 3 out of 5.

CONTEST: 12 Days Of A Country 107.7 Christmas

November 25, 2018 By Taylor Dickson

Country 107.7 is ringing in the Christmas season starting December 6 with our 12 Days of a Country 107.7 Christmas.

Starting December 6, you can win different prizes each day with Country 107.7. Here is the exact prize schedule:

Thursday 12/6 $20 gift certificate to Camelback

Friday 12/7  $20 gift certificate to Camelback

Monday 12/10  $20 gift certificate to Camelback

Tuesday 12/11 4 Packs of snow tubing to Camelback

Wednesday 12/12 4 Packs of snow tubing to Camelback

Thursday 12/13 4 Packs of snow tubing to Camelback

Friday 12/14 1 pair lift tickets to Camelback

Monday 12/17  1 pair lift tickets to Camelback

Tuesday 12/18 1 pair lift tickets to Camelback

Wednesday 12/19 $50 gift certificate to Laurel Grove Florists in Port Jervis

Thursday 12/20 $50 gift certificate to Laurel Grove Florists in Port Jervis

Friday 12/21 $50 gift certificate to Laurel Grove Florists in Port Jervis

 

One entry per household, if entries don’t have a mailing address, they do not qualify. Duplicate entries do not increase your chance of winning.

Enter to win here.

Wayne’s Word: Overlord

November 20, 2018 By Taylor Dickson

Written by Wayne Townsend

Overlord is a 2018 film from Paramount Studios made by Bad Robot Production, J.J. Abrams company. This is an essential note because of Abrams’ love of the macabre. The dark turn of the most recent Star Wars entries attests to this. Overlord is an example of what happens when a major Hollywood studio throws 38 million dollars into a horror film, a great ‘B’ movie. This film takes a page from Robert Rodriguez’ From Dusk till Dawn inasmuch as it starts as one film and morphs into something else. In Overlord (Operation Overlord was the Allied code name for the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944), US Army paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Corp where assigned to blow up a radio tower the night before the invasion to cripple the Nazi communications ability. The plane was shot out the sky in a chillingly realistic recreation of how such an event may have occurred. Lost, cut off from his unit, and having missed the drop zone, private Ed Boyce, played by Jovan Adepo of the film Fences in a star-making performance, tries to avoid Nazi kill squads as he figures out his next move. He hooks up with the demolition expert recently assigned to his unit, corporal Ford, played by Wyatt Russell, son of Kurt and Goldie, and three other soldiers and they proceed to accomplish the mission. The first 2/3rd of this movie is strictly a war film, one of the best in recent memory. All the drama and tension of the task at hand, ensuring the success of the D-Day invasion, is palpable. The group makes it to the town where the radio tower is located, only to find it overrun by German troops. The soldiers proceed with the mission with the help of a local French woman, a victim of Nazi atrocities, including being raped repeatedly by the Nazi commandant. Her parents, her aunt, and most of the residents of the town were all subjected to Nazi scientific experiments conducted in a laboratory Boyce stumbles upon when he yet again, gets separated from the group. This is the left-turn found in all B movies. The lab is designed to create the infamous, and never dying conspiracy theory of Nazi super-soldiers, with mixed results. The monsters become uncontrollable, and mayhem ensues. This shift is what turns this into a horror movie instead of a war film and why it is a very entertaining. Director Julius Avery accomplishes this course change so seamlessly, it’s almost believable that such laboratory could have existed. The acting is excellent, not the over-the-top melodrama often associated with genre films, and the directing style of Avery, moving from 3rd to 1st person POV and back, was video game perfect. I enjoyed this film and you will too, no matter which genre of film you prefer, 3 ½ out of 5.

Wayne’s Word: Bad Times At The El Royale

October 22, 2018 By Taylor Dickson

Written  by Wayne Townsend

I will not discuss the plot points of this film, because there were so many characters reveals addressing one would require me to explain another, thus ruining the movie-going experience. Instead, I’ll discuss structure and design.

Bad Times at the El Royale is a throwback film in the style of Film Noir, modernized for today’s audience. While respect is earned by the filmmakers paying tribute to an underappreciated movie sub-genre (film Noir has historically been tabbed as ‘B’ films, along with horror), today’s directors seem to have a need to reinvent storytelling by using new techniques developed since the introduction of these films in the 1940’s, such as CGI, quirky camera angles, and even color. Apologies, but some stories/movies would just work better in black and white. Bad Times at the El Royale is such a film. Neon signage is part of the backdrop of the story, but director Drew Goddard’s use of shadows to create the mood and in some cases, character juxtaposition, he shows an acute understanding of the difference. He could be forgiven, but I won’t. Goddard has won awards for his writing, The Hugo Award for Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and the Writers Guild Award for Lost. He is the creator of the Netflix series Daredevil and wrote the screenplay for the Matt Damon flick, The Martian. He co-wrote and directed The Cabin in the Woods, so yeah, he’s good.

The movie is set in1968 at a hotel where the state line between California and Nevada is drawn straight down the middle. The characters who populate the titular hotel are thrown together through the happenstance that we call life, motivated by attempts to change the trajectory of their respective lives. A priest, a singer, an escape cultist, and the hotel manager, who is tasked with filming and recording the occupants of the honeymoon suite for what can only be described as blackmail fodder. Much like the movies and TV shows mentioned above, most particularly Lost, the story is non-linear and from the POV of each character. This is done to create a crescendo of tension for each character which comes together in the climax of the film. All the characters are trying to escape something horrible that has happened to them, and struggle with the moral dilemma of choosing a course of action, and just how much ethical leeway their choices give them. This is where the movie excels. Nearly every decision a character can make would negatively impact the others. The struggle to decide whether to do the right thing or whatever is most expedient distress the thought process of each character until time runs out and individual choices are made for them. I found myself changing allegiances from one character to other several times. At one time or another, I rooted for all but one, knowing if they came out on top, the others would suffer. I liked that part, it shows care in the devolvement of the characters. But in doing so through flashback reveals, and with the slow pacing, getting a complete picture is difficult. Either show me enough to get it or leave things out and let me fill in the blanks. We’ve all seen movies that do one or the other. Film noir is at its best during a stormy night with shady strangers and no clear plot other than to survive the conflict introduced. After Hours, by Martin Scorsese is an excellent example of this. Goddard created a bigger plot hole in his attempt to fill in what is by nature a genre designed to have them. For this, he loses points. Bad Times at the El Royale was a decent effort to make a film in my favorite genre, with great performances by all, but it failed to resonate because in the end the focus shifted from the ensemble to one character, thus changing the narrative to the more conventional Hollywood

thriller. Because the movie season is picking up with what seems to be more diverse movie choices, you could wait for Redbox. 3 out of 5.

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