The Foreigner (2017) - Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell and Jackie Chan are back in the game - 10/10 (20/11/17)

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Jackie Chan is an incredibly skilled actor but he has often chosen rather uninteresting roles that limit him to slapstick comedy and a few fight scenes in exchangeable family movies like Kung Fu Yoga and Chinese Zodiac. His last entirely interesting movie...

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The Foreigner (2017) - Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell and Jackie Chan are back in the game - 10/10 (20/11/17)

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Jackie Chan is an incredibly skilled actor but he has often chosen rather uninteresting roles that limit him to slapstick comedy and a few fight scenes in exchangeable family movies like Kung Fu Yoga and Chinese Zodiac. His last entirely interesting movie...

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Silence (2016) - Unorthodoxically artistic - 8/10 (20/11/17)

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Silence is a quite ambitious project by star director Martin Scorsese and it isn't a surprise that this film has failed at the box office. It is particularly long with a running time of one hundred sixty-one minutes. The topic of Jesuits resisting persecution...

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First snow in Gatineau

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Ottawa's brand-new Stanley Cup Monument

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I'm a massive hockey fan and was excited when I heard about the inauguration of a Stanley Cup Monument in downtown Ottawa. However, the monument doesn't really look spectacular and feels lost in the small alley. It would have made more sense to build...

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The world's most amorphous band goes synthpop - A review of In Flames' Down, Wicked & No Good

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Down, Wicked & No Good is a surprise release by In Flames that features four cover songs inspired by original material from Alice in Chains, Chris Isaac, Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails. The band collaborated with Depeche Mode and even took over the...

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Suburbicon (2017) - Perfect balance between crime flick, dark comedy and social drama - 9/10 (15/11/17)

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Suburbicon is a movie that doesn't deserve the overwhelmingly negative critics it gets. The movie is an ambitious mixture of a crime flick, dark comedy and social drama in almost equal parts. This isn't unusual for a script by the talented Coen brothers...

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Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls: Live Chapter

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...brings back some great memories!

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Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - A remedy against sleepless nights - 3/10 (07/11/17)

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Are you seeking a remedy against sleepless nights? You won't need any prescriptions to solve your problem. You simply need to watch Blade Runner 2049. Almost everything that could be wrong with a movie is wrong with this one. To start on a positive note,...

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Autumn Road Trip 2017 - Day 5: Brantford - Gatineau

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Ladies and gentlemen! Here are a few pictures from the fifth and last day of my short autumn road trip. I drove all the way from Brantford to Niagara Falls where I spent about two and a half hours. Sincerely, I would have liked to stay much longer. The...

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