The relatively unknown actress Rooney Mara will shoulder the responsibility of playing Lisbeth Salander in the American adaption of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” ending a long time of speculation. We already knew that Daniel Craig (aka James Bond) will play Mikael Blomkvist and Robin Wright will play Erika Berger.
Rumor has it that two [...]
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19 August 2010 by linda
25 May 2010 by sara
Every time I see this movie I am amazed at how good a movie from the 1940s can be!
Paula (Ingrid Bergman) plays the niece of a famous female singer who was murdered some years ago. Paula is living in Italy practising singing when she meets the man of her dreams. They soon marries and by [...]
19 March 2010 by linda
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be released in the U.S. today (March 19, 2010).
The direct translation of the Swedish title is “Men Who Hate Women” and violence against women is the main theme. The main characters are Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, an excellent hacker with questionable social skills. They work [...]
12 March 2010 by linda
The award winning American TV drama House, M.D. features Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a medical “detective” solving the most difficult medical mysteries. He is an infectious disease specialist, and he heads a team of diagnosticians at a New Jersey hospital. Most patients come to House and his team as a last resort, when no [...]
8 March 2010 by sara
When it comes to criminal pictures, the 1950´s are dominated by the great Alfred Hitchcock and his thrillers. During this decade Hitchcock made 11 pictures. All of them are worth seeing good but 2 of them are (according to me) extra memorable and are really movies you have to see before you die!
1. Vertigo 1958
John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart) plays an ex-cop [...]
23 February 2010 by guest
Shutter Island is a suspense/thriller that takes place on said Alcatraz-like island, which houses an institution for the criminally insane, complete with intimidating cliffs, rocky beaches, and chilly water preventing escape. Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) arrive via ferry as US Marshals investigating a recent escape. They become increasingly [...]
28 December 2009 by linda
In the beginning of the movie the serial killer Lord Blackwood is caught thanks to the classic duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Lord Blackwood is sentenced to death, but he uses black magic to rise from the dead and Holmes’s logic and power of deduction is put to the test. Holmes and Watson try [...]
9 December 2009 by sara
Two weeks ago the third and last movie in Stieg Larssons Millenium trilogy hit the cinemas in Sweden. I´m a big fan of Stieg Larssons books about Lisbeth Salander and I loved the first movie. The second movie was ok but not more. I feared that this movie might be less then ok but as it [...]
22 November 2009 by linda
Monk is one of my absolute favorite TV series. The eight and final season started in the United States recently, and I am eager to see if Monk will solve the crime of his lifetime – the murder of his beloved wife Trudy. Only time will tell. If you have missed the series until now [...]
16 November 2009 by sara
Here are some tips of my favourite criminal pictures. I´ll start with the 1940s
1. The Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and
Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. I know a lot of people love Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the movies from the 80s but for me Rathbone and Bruce are and will [...]
