Another solid melodic heavy metal band from Russia - A review of Activator's Шаг в бесконечность / Step Into Infinity

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Activator's first release The Guardian of Life was a gripping metal opera with five diversified vocalists, numerous great songwriting ideas and a generous running time of about fifty-six minutes. Later that year, the band already released its second effort...

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Smooth diversity from an amorphous band - A review of Tiamat's ''The Scarred People''

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Tiamat is quite amorphous, experimental and open-minded band that has shifted from death metal towards gothic rock over the years, trying to integrate seemingly contradictory elements such as new wave electronica and psychedelic rock onto its albums in...

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Chui lung / Chasing the Dragon (2017) - One of the best gangster epics in recent memory - 8/10 (05/02/18)

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Chasing the Dragon is a gangster epic based upon real events that have inspired numerous similar movies in the past. It tells the rise and fall of Ho, an illegal immigrant to Hongkong who starts as a street fighter before his skills impress local police...

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Jie jiu Wu xian sheng / Saving Mr. Wu (2015) - Great acting but dull filmmaking - 6/10 (05/02/18)

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Saving Mr. Wu is a suspenseful drama inspired by real events. It tells the story of a movie star named Wu who gets kidnapped by criminals pretending to be police officers. The kidnappers then force him to ask a friend to pay a ransom for him or else he...

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Heavy metal by the numbers for four decades - A review of Saxon's Thunderbolt

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Saxon has been playing heavy metal by the numbers for four decades but for some unfathomable reason, the British quintet is still around and quite popular. I've decided to give the band's new record a few spins since Saxon is going on tour with the much...

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Stagnating on a high level - A review of Orphaned Land's Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

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Could a band whose last studio album would have deserved a Nobel Peace Prize and whose title track was arguably one of the best metal songs ever written possibly beat its shining opus magnum? No, it couldn't. After the colossal All Is One, Israeli quintet...

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Stagnating on a high level - A review of Orphaned Land's Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

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Could a band whose last studio album would have deserved a Nobel Peace Prize and whose title track was arguably one of the best metal songs ever written possibly beat its shining opus magnum? No, it couldn't. After the colossal All Is One, Israeli quintet...

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Paddington 2 (2017) - Traveling back to the ambition, curiosity and innocence of your childhood - 10/10 (02/02/18)

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The first live action and CGI-animated Paddington movie was a triumphant return for the greatest children's book franchise in the world. This second movie even outclasses it and might be the best animated movie ever made. The movie tells the story of...

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Sumagurâ: Omae no mirai o hakobe / Smuggler (2011) - Vivid V-Cinema styled potpourri - 8/10 (02/02/18)

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Smuggler is a live action movie based upon a Japanese manga series by Manabe Shohei that stands out with an eclectic genre mixture and a fusion of extremes that is quite particular for Japanese cinema. The movie follows three main plots that complement...

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Paddington (2014) - Bears are the better human beings - 8/10 (01/02/18)

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Usually, I'm not a very nostalgic person and I'm certainly not a person who watches Dinsey films as an adult. However, Michael Bond's Paddington has always fascinated me since my early childhood. The idea of an innoent bear from darkest Peru integrating...

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