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A Dark and Honest Survival Story | The Velvet Café
I am probably one of the most experienced mountain climbers you’ve ever encountered. I’ve been to Mount Everest, where I heroically singlehandedly saved a number of other climbers from a certain death in the …
Fighting With Laughter Rather Than With Guns | The Velvet Café
“The laughter died in my throat”, wrote one of the major newspapers and gave Four Lions a pretty bad review in the beginning of this year. It came up in the cinemas quite shortly …
Fearless Young Women | The Velvet Café
I know it’s a little bit silly and childish, but I can’t help feeling a little put off when a movie gets unanimous praise from just about the entire corps of critics. You know, …
The Way to Get the Buzz Going | The Velvet Café
I doubt there are many people who live outside of Sweden who ever will hear of the movie “Behind Blue Skies”. While it has been shown on at least film festivals in North America …
A Different Kind of Romance | The Velvet Café
“Notting Hill”. It’s written in red on the cover of the DVD and it sticks out more than even the title of the film itself. And certainly – Venus has the same director as …
Ups and Downs | The Velvet Café
My film watching recently has been a bit of a roller coaster experience – varying crazily up and down, from the excellent to abyssmal back to gorgeous to mediocre. I suppose that’s one of …
Not First Class at all | The Velvet Café
No, just no. I can’t understand why X-Men: First Class got so comparatively good reviews. From what I had read about it I thought I would see some really nice well written dialogues, good …
My First Cup of Coffee | The Velvet Café
Every novel begins with a white sheet of paper, every movie starts with an empty screen, and every blog begins with an emptiness that is as much intimidating as inviting. I’ve called this place …