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Losing Benefits over Facebook

CBC News is reporting that a depressed woman (from Quebec, Canada), has lost her long-term sick leave insurance benefits over some Facebook photos.  According to CBC, Manulife (the insurance company) saw some pictures of Nathalie blanchard posted on her Facebook account that showed her at the beach and at a bar, and thus decided that Nathalie was fit to work and ended her insurance benefits.

It seems pretty straight forward that if your insurance company catches you on the beach when you are on sick leave you would lose your benefits.  But, what make this story different is that Nathalie  suffers from Depression which lead to here sick leave, and was thus advised by those treating her to go to the beach and to go hang out at bars, etc. to help treat her depression. So I have to wonder how Manulife at arm length would have been able to declare her cured of her depression by looking at photos of her on Facebook.

Another point of concern with this story is that Nathalie’s Facebook account is locked and is only accessible by people that she friends.  How would Manulife be able to get to her Facebook page without her approval?  It appears that the protections that Facebook is using to keep your account private aren’t so strong after all.  At lest not for insurance companies.

I hope this women gets her benefits back.  Companies shouldn’t be diagnosing people’s mental state through their pictures on Facebook.

What happened to the Martial Arts Movie?

This trailer is awesome.

I recently saw a trailer for Ninja Assassin and I can’t wait to see it.  But it got me asking. What happened to the Martial Arts movie?  

Ninja Assassin is the first martial arts movie that I’ve seen released in a while.  Martial Arts movies use to big at the theatre, but they seem to all but disappeared, or been wrapped into other genres.  Have we had enough of Martial Arts movies?

I personally hope not, I love Martial Arts movies.  What do you think?  Does the genre need a break?

New Twilight New Moon TV trailers

Just saw these new TV trailers post over by The Movie Blog,  and I have to say that this Twilight looks to be a lot more action packed than the last one.  I’m really looking forward to this movie. 

A Day to Remember

I want to stop and thank all of the War Vets that fought for our freedom. Because of the War Vets I'm able to live a free life and I'm thankful for that. Thank you.

Justice league: Crisis on Two Earth's Trailer

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I just saw this over on IGN.com and I thought that it would be cool to share it here. I've always love the Warner Brothers DC cartoon series and I'm looking forward to watching this one. What do you think of the trailer?

Skank Robbers the Movie

Growing up in the 90s I remember watching the shows like 'Martin' and 'In Living Color'. That is why when I saw this trailer over on The Movie Blog, I was pretty happy to see these characters again. Sheneneh and Wanda were hilarious in their time and so just to see them in any form was great. Then I heard they were making a movie based on these characters and I was looking forward to seeing the film. But I started thinking, Was this a good idea?

Sheneneh was just a side character that popped up every so often in 'Martin' and Wanda only appeared in short skits. Could these Sheneneh and Wanda characters really hold down a whole movie together and still be funny? I think that characters like Sheneneh and Wanda would find it hard to be interesting and funny for anything long like a feature length film, since there whole gag was that they were always chasing after some man and they were ugly, (beside the fact that the audience knew it was a guy dressed up like a women playing the role).

Also, given the fact that both of these characters have been off TV for over 10 years I have to wonder if its really a good idea to try and bring them back. There is probably a good portion of the movie going audience that will not even recognize these characters and thus are not immediately interested in seeing a movie about them.

I think this film is probably 10 years to late. Then again, I will probably still go to see it. What do you think? Are you interested in this movie?