Cinema
SVARTUR Á LEIK (BLACK’S GAME) – icy land indeed
I can’t help it, I just love Nordic films. Iceland has a special place in my heart, and BLACK’S GAME , or SVARTUR Á LEIK (if you talk like a Viking), is as evil and cold […]
Year: 2014
Actor
BLACKHAT – another cyber thriller
BLACKHAT , directed and partly written by Michael Mann, “follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta” […]
Actor
MAPS TO THE STARS – a Cronenberg conundrum
MAPS TO THE STARS , directed by David Cronenberg and written by Bruce Wagner, reminded me of NIGHTCRAWLER. It is to film business, what the latter is to news journalism – what a drama! Both films […]
Actor
CAMP X-RAY starring a brilliant Kristen Stewart
The film CAMP X-RAY had me in tears – a very rare thing, all but impossible when I’m in film-analysing mode. But Kristen Stewart‘s green eyes – in her role as Guantanamo guard Private Cole – […]
books
Lena Einhorn: Blekingegatan 32
Coming back home from Södermalm, from Stockholms Filmfestival, doesn’t feel so bad if one has this book to accompany the flight back to Austria. “Blekingegatan 32” is the name of the street in Stockholm Södermalm, […]
Actor
THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY – a thriller, flawless and beautiful
Yes, Viggo Mortensen stars in THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY as well-to-do American tourist Chester MacFarland, so do Kirsten Dunst as his wife Colette and Oscar Isaac as charming and mischievous tourist guide Rydal (who sees […]
Actor
PING PONG SUMMER – back to 1985 :)
Fly! Real bad (… that means good). It’s 1985 and it’s a PING PONG SUMMER for Rad Miracle (Marcello Conte), a boy who loves hip-hop and ping-pong, who has a goth sister and a Scottish […]