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Could you stomach seeing the same movie 128 times? | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/26 | Soi kèo
A friend of mine has seen the same movie 127 times since he saw it for the first time at the age of eight. The movie in question is The Third Man. He claims …
A sobering wake-up from the French spell | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/25 | Soi kèo
It feels a bit weird to go back to talking about what’s going on on the film screen, while still in shock after what happened in Norway a few days ago. And yet, …
The disturbing thought: “This is like a movie” | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/24 | Soi kèo
It was late Friday afternoon and I had just arrived at home when I got the first fragments of news from Norway about the terror attack. Whatever remained of my illusion of Scandinavia being …
A Look Into the Pensieve | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
It was one of those days of despair. The cancer was raging uncontrolled in the stomach of my 56 year old father and I can only imagine the agony he felt as he approached …
Sparkles of Nostalgia | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
So, here’s the deal: I was 11 years old in 1979, when this movie takes place. Blondie, Walkman players and the nuclear accident in Harrisburg isn’t just something from the history;  It’s a part …
I Beg Your Pardon? | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
There has been a debate going on in the Filmspotting forums where I hang around, about the habit of playing the movie at double speed, which some forum dwellers have confessed they have. “What’s …
Sometimes a Kiss is All What You Really Want | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
There are moments in life when you’d rather switch off your brain. Stop thinking. Just go for the kiss. Hanna is that kind of movie. It tastes deliciously as long as you don’t pay …
Seventeen Year Old Léon Still Going Strong | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
Action movies isn’t normally a genre I’m drawn to. I suppose I’m a little bit too squishy and most of the time the violence in them just makes me feel sick. But Léon blew …
V Fails to Win My Heart | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
I’m afraid that this is one of those occasions when I disagree completely with the reviewers of IMDB. There are quite a few of them in the case of V for Vendetta – 1904, …
A Dark and Honest Survival Story | The Velvet Café
Post at 2011/07/20 | Soi kèo
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 …