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Film Review: 10 MPH, 10 Yards
When I was offered a review copy of the new documentary film 10 Yards Fantasy Football, I replied, “No use sending that to a guy with no interest either in real nor imaginary football. But please do...
View ArticleMohammed Rafi Rules
A few years ago my friend David the Psychonaut gave me an mp3 file with the greatest song, “Jan Pehechan-Ho” by Mohammed Rafi. And now another friend, Tanya the Cosmopolite, links to the song’s...
View ArticleBy Night He’s One Hell of a Lover
My wife and I watched the 2004 biopic Kinsey last night, about ground-breaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey. Good movie, good acting, interesting theme. And there’s an added perk for fans of The Rocky...
View ArticleOffice Boredom Art Video
From Birmingham art students Tanya Mircheva and Mihaela Calin, a clip about office-job boredom.
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Avatar and the Gaia Hypothesis
[More blog entries about movies, avatar, tolkien, gaiahypothesis; film, avatar, tolkien, gaiahypotesen.] Today my mind was blown by James Cameron’s sf film Avatar in full-colour 3D. Some spoilers...
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Skiing Break
Last week was skiing break for my kids. I couldn’t find anywhere good to stay in the mountains, so we didn’t go off on holiday. Here’s what we did for fun instead. Dinner at the home of a Chinese...
View ArticleBanal Sex
One of H.P. Lovecraft’s least successful horror stories is “Medusa’s Coil“, a 1930 collaboration with Zealia Bishop. The story builds to one of the hideous final denouements that Lovecraft liked to end...
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Riff-raff at the School for Vampires
I’ve found out about the spooky cartoon show my daughter watches that I wondered about, the one where one character looks just like Riff-raff in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s Die Schule der...
View ArticleStockholm Film Festival 2014
Before this month I’d never attended a film festival in any concerted way. But I was inspired by Ken & Robin’s podcast to do so, and got myself a membership card for the Stockholm Film Festival,...
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Monsters of Film
Turbo Kid — see this movie! Encouraged by my first film festival last year, I’ve signed up for two this year. This past week it’s been the genre festival Monsters of Film, which leans towards horror...
View ArticleStockholm Film Festival 2015
It’s been a busy movie-going month for me with the Monsters of Film festival, where I saw six films, and now the Stockholm International Film Festival where I’ve seen eight. Last year I saw ten films...
View ArticleNotes on the new Star Wars movie
Vague and sweeping spoilers below. The Force Awakens is fully on a level with the original three films, as far as I remember them. These are four good scifi action movies. The new one is actually...
View ArticleMovie Recommendations Thread
John asked me to create a permanent movie recommendations forum in the shape of a comment thread. Et voilà!
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Weekend Fun
Space Whale The past two weekends were a lot of fun. The Royal Technical College’s orchestra and several combined student choirs from Sweden and Finland performed Giuseppe Verdi’s 1874 Requiem, an...
View ArticleStockholm Film Festival 2016
I watched ten films at the 2014 festival, fourteen last year (at two festivals back to back), and this year I managed ten again. I had bought tickets for fourteen, but stuff got in the way: a huge...
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