film

Mzansi Magic, a boost for local film and TV

(Feb 03, 2012) It’s been just over a year since M-Net and DSTV launched Mzansi Magic. In that time the channel has impressed me, especiall...

A little love for Kodak

(Jan 27, 2012) It’s been talked about for months now, and yet when I got home the other night and saw that Kodak had declared bankruptcy, I wa...

Three Cheers for Movies and Beer

(Dec 31, 2011) The Mission district in San Francisco needs a movie theater that can sell beer like, well, every neighborhood needs a movie theate...

Equally Blessed and Cursed

(Aug 10, 2011) It’s a mixed blessing to live near a place that sells things that are increasingly hard to come by, that you want. On the one h...

Hot For Holga

(Aug 05, 2011) There once was a time where you couldn’t just fire away 10 shots in a row, review them and delete the ones you don’...

Little White Lies

(Feb 12, 2011) My favourite film magazine Little White Lies is now available in Sweden from Press Stop and the best magazine store in the whole o...

Finding things, long forgotten, still useful

(Feb 01, 2011) I found several rolls of Advantix (APS) film in a pocket, which I didn’t know existed, of my bag that I didn’t realize ex...

Black Swan: the Soundtrack

(Dec 30, 2010) Easily one of the most harrowing and psychologically tense movies I’ve ever seen, I immediately left Black Swan feeling lik...

Human Centipede II: The Full Sequence

(Dec 27, 2010) Theatrical release poster from the first Human Centipede... If you have the same reaction I did seeing the title of this entry, ...

Killer Ballerinas

(Dec 20, 2010) Natalie Portman in the Black Swan Darren Aronofsky’s highly anticipated new film, Black Swan, is a thrill so gripping I tho...

Local Duo Finally Translate The Language Of Love

(Nov 19, 2010) Love Translated may be the most disturbing film you see all year that makes you howl with both derision and laughter in equal mea...

Art Films for the Fashionable

(Nov 09, 2010) Still from Kenneth Angers short film for Missoni Fall 2010 The marriage of the art film and the couture collection isn’t ne...

Vancouver Film Fest Season Launches Into Fall

(Sep 24, 2010) One of the glorious things about living in the Pacific Northwest is the way that summer comes in with a bang and goes out that m...

Still Thinking About Moonlight Mile

(Sep 22, 2010) I was surprised never to have heard of this film as it came out so many years ago. Moonlight Mile stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Ben, w...

The Runaways Made Me Want to Glam it Up. Hard.

(Sep 20, 2010) The story of the young Joan Jett and sultry yet inexperienced Cherie Curry is explored in The Runaways. It was difficult to envis...