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The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival

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Who by Fire (Comme le feu), Philippe Lesage (2024)

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Terror Train

Tubi’s 2022 remake of the Canadian slasher TERROR TRAIN (1980), directed by Philippe Gagnon, looks better technically than the original, and Tim Rozon as the magician is a distinct improvement over David Copperfield, who, let’s face it, was never much of an actor. It also ups the gore factor, but that doesn’t necessarily make for a better picture. Perhaps it plays better for those who have never seen the original, which wasn’t all that good in the first place, but I would have greatly preferred the dark cinematography of that version to the impersonal, bright color palette that only serves to show up the threadbare story and kind of meh performances. There are a few surprises if you’ve seen the 1980 film, but there are also places where you’re saying, “Now she grabs the fire extinguisher” and “Here comes the decapitation.”

The remake only adds a few new elements to the story. The college students whose pranks send a freshman to the hospital are now pre-med students, which makes some of their deaths seem a service to humanity. The prank’s ringleader, Doc (Matias Lucas), is so vile and irresponsible granting him a medical degree would be tantamount to mass murder. The group is also multicultural, which is fine as a reflection of changing times. I just wish they were as interesting as the original group, which included Jamie Leigh Curtis and Hart Bochner. Anyway, three years after the prank, the future doctors of some unspecified North American country are celebrating graduation on a party train when someone starts killing them off. Final girl Robyn Alomar, who had only reluctantly participated in the prank without realizing how severe it was, enlists the aid of train conductors Mary Walsh and Nadine Bhabha in roles originally played by men, another adaptation for changing times and a welcome one. Walsh, a skilled comic actor, has some great line readings and is more than capable of filling Ben Johnson’s shoes. In fact, I now want to see a remake of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) with Walsh as Sam the Lion. I smell an Oscar, which is better than anything one might smell watching TERROR TRAIN.

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An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Nick Wells: Robert De Niro Jack Teller: Edward Norton Max: Marlon Brando Diane: Angela Bassett Burt: Gary Farmer Steven: Jamie Harrold Danny: Paul Soles Jean-Claude: Martin Drainville Laurent: Serge Houde André: Jean-René Ouellet Albert: Claude Despins Sapperstein: Richard Waugh Sapperstein’s Cousin: Mark Camacho Woman in Study: Marie-Josée Colburn Man in Study: Gavin Svensson Tuan: Thinh Truong Nguyen Cop: Carlo Essagian Drunk: Christian Tessier Storekeeper: Lenie Scoffié Tony: Bobby Brown Philippe: Maurice Demers Guard: Christian Jacques Guard: Henry Farmer Guard: Dacky Thermidor Guard: Gerard Blouin Old Engineer: Charles V. Doucet Worker: Pierre Drolet Bureaucrat Official: Norman Mikeal Berketa Ironclad Tech: Eric Hoziel Janitor: John Talbot Thug: Richard Zeman Thug: Nick Carasoulis Special Appearance: Cassandra Wilson Special Appearance: Mose Allison Man at Airport (uncredited): June Järvenpää Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Howard Shore Editor: Richard Pearson Director: Frank Oz Director of Photography: Rob Hahn Story: Kario Salem Screenplay: Lem Dobbs Producer: Lee Rich Screenplay: Scott Marshall Smith Producer: Gary Foster Production Design: Jackson De Govia Costume Design: Aude Bronson-Howard Script Supervisor: Rebecca Robertson Casting: Margery Simkin Key Makeup Artist: Francine Gagnon Key Hair Stylist: Corald Giroux Makeup Effects: Matthew W. Mungle Construction Coordinator: Alain Brochu Supervising ADR Editor: Marissa Littlefield Sound Effects Editor: Paul Urmson Story: Daniel E. Taylor Art Direction: Tom Reta Set Designer: Félix Larivière-Charron Camera Operator: Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky Dialogue Editor: Nicholas Renbeck Art Department Coordinator: Genevieve Ferderber Set Designer: Lucie Tremblay First Assistant Director: David Sardi Boom Operator: Markus Wade Music Editor: Suzana Peric Property Master: Denis Hamel Art Direction: Claude Paré Rigging Grip: Alain Brouillette Supervising Sound Editor: Ron Bochar Stunt Coordinator: Jean Frenette Set Decoration: K.C. Fox Production Manager: Alain Gagnon Set Designer: Céline Lampron Greensman: Ray Légaré Boom Operator: Nathalie Piche Still Photographer: Phillip V. Caruso Steadicam Operator: Angelo Colavecchia First Assistant Camera: Maarten Kroonenburg Location Manager: Michèle St-Arnaud Prop Maker: Patrice Jacques Set Designer: Charlotte Rouleau Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Lee Dichter Special Effects Supervisor: Louis Craig Chief Lighting Technician: Jean Courteau Production Coordinator: Victorine Tamafo Set Designer: Claude Lafrance Foley Editor: Kam Chan Dialogue Editor: Fred Rosenberg Stunt Coordinator: Bud Davis Armorer: Julie Coulombe Art Department Coordinator: Michelle Drolet First Assistant Camera: Tony Rivetti Sr. Sound Effects Editor: Lewis Goldstein First Assistant Editor: Richard Friedlander Art Department Coordinator: Michel Bouchard Foley Editor: Frank Kern Dolly Grip: Alain Masse Production Controller: George Lakes Armorer: Brent Radford Executive Music Producer: Budd Carr Executive Producer: Adam Platnick Executive Producer: Bernard Williams Stunt Coordinator: David Leitch Movie Reviews: JPV852: A go-to for a solid heist-thriller that features two great performances by De Niro and Norton with honorable mention to Brando who looked a little worse for wear. Not the top notch in the genre but still a breezy but still suspense-filled watch if you don’t want anything thought-provoking. Still makes me chuckle that it was Frank Oz to be the one to direct three generations of great actors… **3.75/5**

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"Accusés d'avoir volé et battu un chauffeur de taxi," La Presse. January 11, 1943. Page 20. --- La police met la main sur deux présumés bandits. - Autres comparutions. --- Joseph Johnson, 23 ans, qui a dit étre domicilié à 353, rue Tolbert, Winnipeg, et Joseph Burns, 21 ans, 942, rue DeBulilon, arrêtés dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, par les sergents-détectives Bertrand, Boileau et Bertrand, de la Sûreté municipale, ont comparu devant le juge J.-A. Métayer, dans la matinée de samedi, sous l'accusation d'avoir volé le taxi de M. Armand Dandurand, 2156, rue Châteauguay et de plus s'être livrés à des voles de fait graves sur M. Dandurand après lui avoir volé $3.

Tous deux ont nié leur culpabilité; leur procès a été fixé au 14 du courant et en attendant, ils devront passer trois jours à la Sûreté municipale.

Johnsen et Burns ont été arrêtés peu de temps après que M. Dandurand eut été attaqué par deux jeunes hommes, angle des rues Cadillac et Notre-Dame.

Les deux jeunes hommes étalent montés dans le taxi rue Sainte-Catherine et avalent prié M. Dandurand de les conduire à Montréal-Est.

Alphonse Lapointe, un individu de 56 ans, qui a dit être domicilié à 3471a, rue Saint-Dominique, a comparu sous l'accusation d'avoir volé divers articles évalués à environ 56. Il a avoué sa culpabilité et sentence sera prononcée le 8 février prochain.

Le président du tribunal a décidé de le garder en prison en attendant le prononcé de la sentence, après avoir appris du sergent-détective Jos. Noël, officier de liaison de la Sûreté municipale, que Lapointe est un individu qui ne possède aucun moyen visible de subsistance.

Clémence du juge P. Marchand Le juge Philippe Marchand s'est montré clément, samedi, dans le cas de deux jeunes hommes qui ont comparu devant lui pour y recevoir leur sentence. Dans chaque cas, il les a condamnés au temps fait en prison. Aaron Chambers, 35 ans, 742, rue Fulford, arrêté la veille de Noël, par les sergents-détectives Bertrand et Bolleau, avait avoué sa culpabilité à l'accusation d'avoir frappé sa mère âgée de 71 ans, sur la tête, avec une chaise.

"Votre mère, fit remarquer le juge Marchand, a imploré ma clémence en votre faveur, faisant remarquer que lorsque vous l'avez frappé, vous étiez ivre. Je suis prêt à vous condamner au temps que vous avez fait en prison mais vous aurez à fournir un cautionnement de $100 pour garder la paix pendant douze mois afin de vous empêcher de boire".

Alcide Sourdif, 23 ans, sans domicile connu, coupable d'avoir volé une somme de $235, d'un compagnon de chambre, a également été condamné au temps fait en prison. Me Lucien Gagnon, son avocat, a imploré la clémence du tribunal, en faisant remarquer que son client n'avait pas de casier judiciaire. Le juge s'est rendu à sa demande.

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C+clair, émission du 31 mars 2023 : Peut-on faire confiance à l'IA ? from GALA PROD on Vimeo.

Au sommaire, trois grands axes afin de répondre à cette question : la maîtrise de la création et du développement des algorithmes, distinguer le vrai du faux, et favoriser l'utilisation de l'IA par les organisations dans un climat de confiance.

Animée par Philippe Régnoux et Sarah Gagnon-Turcotte

Rédactrice en chef : Chloé-Anne Touma

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Psycho Prom Queen (2018) dir. Philippe Gagnon

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TERROR TRAIN 2 (2022) Mystery horror soon on Tubi

TERROR TRAIN 2 (2022) Mystery horror soon on Tubi

Terror Train 2 is a 2022 Canadian mystery horror slasher film set aboard the same locomotive as Terror Train (2022). Plot synopsis: A year has passed since a series of gruesome murders took the lives of multiple college seniors aboard the now-infamous Terror Train. Alana (Robyn Alomar) is coerced to join The Magician (Tim Rozon) and other survivors on a New Year’s Eve redemption ride aboard the…

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Girls Night Out (2017)

Girls Night Out (2017)

Plot: Mckenzie has just gotten engaged, so her three best friends plan a wild night out for her. However, events don’t go as planned when the man who date raped McKenzie in college, kidnaps her fiance and forces the girls to play stupid and dangerous games. Director: Philippe Gagnon Starring: MacKenzie Mauzy, Katherine Barrell, Kelly Kruger, Jacob Blair, Tristan D. Lalla, Cody Ray Thompson.…

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The Canadian men's moguls team cheering on Alex Beaulieu-Marchand in the men's slopestyle skiing event

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Genèse, Philippe Lesage (2018)

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Transhumanism in the light of theology, philosophy and science – critical perspective and Christian metaphysical implications,

Faculty of Letters, Theology and History of the West University Timisoara will organizes the International Conference with the topic “Transhumanism in the light of theology, philosophy and science – critical perspective and Christian metaphysical implications” (Timișoara, November 4-7, 2021). In this academic event we will bring the transhumanist ideal into conversation with modern philosophy and Christian theology. We are inviting you to participate in this conference to examine, from the perspective of philosophy and theology, the recent cultural movement calling itself transhumanism, that combines biology with technology, enhancing our bodies and brains with scientific innovation, seeking to overcome the limitations of our flesh.

The dialogue between science, theology and philosophy lately has managed a notable move in a fresh creative direction. This is owed largely to his principal aim of juxtaposing the conventional modern philosophical and cosmological concerns with the theological ideas and methods of the early Church Fathers. Therefore, the main objective of this conference is to advance the science and theology discourse along an existential route, employing Patristic ideas toward a new synthesis with modern philosophy and science and, thus, to locate scientific knowledge and faith as twin activities of the contemporary shared human subjectivity.

Technology has become constitutive of the identity of modern human being. The incorporation of technology into human self-understanding has alarmed both theologians and secular humanists – technology applied to the inner life dehumanizes us. No amount of increased intelligence will redeem us from what the theologians call sin. Human nature is not capable of changing through the augmentation of intelligence. There is here a confusion of sociological evolution with spiritual progress.

The theologian looks forward to the divine transformation or deification, and not to enhance human intelligence through technological augmentation. A full answer to the problems inherent within the dream of transhumanism would have to include a revaluation of personhood. There is a theological response that will be shared by all Christians: the human person is made in the image of God.As the debate grows in urgency, how should theology respond? The scholars that have joined for this conference are voices that together want to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope. Technological dehumanization versus God’s promise for ultimate transformation (theosis) – this is the debate about. 

What will Christian theology to the transhuman ideal, as a kind of alternative story of salvation? Transhumanism can mean overcoming our garment of flesh, and the reformation of human knowledge through the sciences also means to fight against the Fall of man, resembling a nature rivaling its creator.

This calls on Christians to understand and engage with some of the deep issues facing the church in a technological, transhumanist future and to considers how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation. Are there theological insights and spiritual practices that can help Christians face the challenge of living in a technological world without being dangerously conformed to its values? This calls on the Christians to understand and engage with the deep issues facing the church in a technological, transhumanist future.

Is this transhumanist belief (their faith and trust in a combination of biological evolution and technological progress) acceptable to contemporary science? Perhaps not. But, we can do here a theological and philosophical critique of it. Christianity is the real challenge to transhumanism, not the other way around.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

RONALD COLE-TURNER (H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)

GEORGE KHUSHF (Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina)

ANDREW NEWBERG (Director of Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA)

PHILIPPE GAGNON (Chaire Sciences, technosciences et foi à l’heure de l’écologie intégrale, Université Catholique de Lille)

WILLIAM GRASSIE (Director of Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia)

JAMES LAWRENCE (Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)

YANNICK IMBERT (Doyen, Professeur d’apologétique, Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence)

CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, IOCS Cambridge)

MIRCEA DUMITRU (Romanian Academy & Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest)

ȘTEFAN CÂRSTEA (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering IFIN-HH)

ADRIAN SORIN MIHALACHE (Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Science, University of Iași)

COSTEA MUNTEANU (Faculty of International Business and Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies)

NICU GAVRILUȚĂ (Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, University ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iași)

ȘTEFAN TRĂUȘAN-MATU (Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest)

ADRIAN LEMENI (Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Bucharest)

CLAUDIU MESAROȘ (Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication, West University of Timisoara)

ALIN GAVRELIUC (Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, West University of Timisoara)

SORIN MUȘUROI (Politehnica University of Timisoara)

NICHIFOR TĂNASE (Faculty of Letters, Theology and History, West University of Timișoara)

GABRIEL KELEMEN (Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timişoara)

https://www.uvt.ro/en/blog/transhumanism-in-the-light-of-theology-philosophy-and-science-critical-perspective-and-christian-metaphysical-implications/

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Le dernier des chaloupiers Premier single, seul single, de l'album "Ma délire — Songs of love, lost & found" (à paraître 1er octobre 2021).«Au coeur de ma délire» est surtout la pièce qui a donné naissance au projet de cet album. Le résultat d'un amour fou pour une très vieillechanson enregistrée par Philippe Gagnon et Dominique Tremblay en 1971, elle a été créée lors d'une résidence au Vieux Moulin du Bic,dans l'atelier de bateau de Daniel Saint-Pierre. On y entend d'ailleurs la voix de ce Daniel chaloupier, le bruit de ses outils de travail et les appelsd'une enfant qui ne lâchait pas sa mère d'une semelle, même lorsqu'elle enregistrait. On y entend une chanson étrange, une délire au féminin, qui n'a rien perdu de sa forte résonance, du trouble ancien qu'elle sait faire renaître. Maintenant disponible sur Bandcamp et d'autres plateformes digitales.

------ Last of the boat carpenters First single, only single, from the forthcoming album "Ma Délire — Songs of love, lost & found" (out october first 2021).«Au cœur de ma délire» is first and foremost the song that gave birth to this album's project. The end result of a love affair for a very oldsong recorded by Philippe Gagnon & Dominique Trembley in 1971, it was created during a residency at the Old Mill of Le Bic (Québec), at the workshopof rowboat carpenter Daniel Saint-Pierre. One can hear the voice of Daniel, telling stories, the noise of his machines and tools, and the «maman» calls of a todler who would not be left out of her mom's recordings.One hears a strange song, a she-delirium (the word «delire», usually masculine, is here feminine), that lost nothing through the years of the poignant feeling it arises. Now available on Bandcamp  & other digital platforms.

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"ALLEGED BANDITS APPEAR IN COURT," Montreal Star. June 2, 1933. Page 3. ---- Six Men Face Charges of Armed Hold-ups-Five Committed ---- Charged with having held up Lucien Berthiaume, employe of the Catelli Macaront Company, 305 Bellechasse street, on May 12, and stolen the pay roll of $2,237, Lucien Hogue, George Starke and Philippe Dulude, no addresses, appeared in court this morning. Dulude could not be identified as one of the three men involved in the affair and he was acquitted. Hogue and Starke were committed for voluntary statement on June 9. Berthiaume and D. Gingras, another employe of the company, present when the hold-up took place, both identified Hogue and Starke. Miss Edna Guertin, who testified that she met Hogue on the day of the hold-up. spoke of being in a room with him in which she saw a box full of money. She read an account of the robbery in a newspape, she stated, and Hogue said. "They won't get me." Hogue, who had no counsel, asked if he had not instead said, "They won't get them," but she refused to change her testimony. In addition they were charged with the theft of the payroll of the Gagnon & Lachapelle Company, on the same date, when more than $4.000 was taken. Miss Guertin, witness in the earlier case, was called again. She was markedly reluctant to testify until Judge Lacroix threatened her with jail unless she were more frank in her answers. The case was postponed until Monday. OTHER CHARGES Charged with four hold-ups, John Clark and Romeo Gibeault, no addresses, appeared in the police court this morning. The first charged faced was that of holding up the Caron drug store, 2001 Laurier avenue east on May 6. Gustave Chevalier, clerk in the store, told of two men coming in and taking money and a quantity of drugs. He identified Gibeault, but not Clark. The former was committed for voluntary statement, on June 9, and the latter acquitted. The second charge was that of holding up the clerk in a drug store at 4644 St. Denis street, on the Friday preceding Easter. He identified Clark, but not Gibeault. The former was committed for voluntary state- ment on June 9 and the latter acquitted. Clark was likewise Identified as one of the two who held up the Leduc Pharmacy, St. Denis and Vil- leray streets on the same night. He was committed for trial on this charge on June 9. Finally, Clark, Gibeault, and Lucien Mayer appeared jointly charged with attempted hold-up of the office of the tramway company on Mount Royal avenue, on May 14. Detectives Poirier and Coulombe spoke of seeing the three men enter the office, and of following them within a few seconds. They found Clark and Gibeault with revolvers in their hands. Mayer was carrying a black valise, they stated.

The trio were committed for voluntary statement on June 9.