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When is your top moment of Christmas? If you ask your kids, they might, just might raise their hands for the Christmas present opening, either it takes place on the 24th of December as in my country or on the 25th as in the rest of the world. If you ask the parents of the […]

There are a couple things in the world that give me creeps. One of them is spiders, which bugs me (sic!) quite a bit. How I wish that I was more like Sigourney Weaver! It doesn’t make sense why a tiny little eight legged creature should be any worse than a six legged one, even […]

“Why are you drinking?” demanded the little prince. “So that I may forget,” replied the tippler. “Forget what?” inquired the little prince, who already felt sorry for him. “Forget that I am ashamed,” the tippler confessed, hanging his head. “Ashamed of what?” insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. “Ashamed of drinking!” Those […]

I’ll begin the post of today telling you a story. Once upon a time there were two women who lived in a swamp. There was a war going on and times were hard for everyone, but they had found themselves a good source of income. Whenever a samurai came walking into their territory, they preyed […]

I spent the evening of my 44th birthday last week watching a teenage comedy. I don’t know what that says about me. Perhaps it was my perpetual midlife crisis at work once again. But mostly it was a case of sticking to the least common denominator. It would be nice to have some company that […]

Professor Kirke was always one of my favorite characters in the Narnia chronicles. I loved when he lectured Peter and Susan as they came to him with their concerns about the sanity of their sister Lucy after listening to her ramblings about visits to another world inside the wardrobe: “Logic! Why don’t they teach logic […]

Whenever a good Scandinavian movie comes out, the question will inevitably comes up: “How long will it be before they make an American remake”. It’s not a question of “if” anymore, but “when”, and the answer to that question generally is “within two years”. As a European I have mixed feelings about those remakes, but […]

“So, I’ve started my samurai training”. I said it casually in a phone conversation with my sister as we were catching up on what had been going on in our lives the last few months. “You’ve WHAT” I heard her saying, before her speech turned into a loud, merciless and uncontrolled laughter. It was obvious […]

Apparently silent movies are back in fashion again – at least in the frontline countries of cinema. Sweden will have to wait until next year to watch Hugo and The Artist, which both have silent film themes. So what is a film buff in this remote part of the world to do while waiting for […]

Why do we go to the movies? Usually I would say something along the lines “to get entertained, comforted, challenged or stimulated”.  I don’t normally go to theatres to make a political standpoint. But a few days ago I did exactly that thing. The film I watched wasn’t even called a film, but an “effort” […]