In total, the festival will show 154 different films, (chosen from the 316 sent to the competition), that will compete to get the classical prize Hinku and Vinku, consisting of a picture and flowers for the winners. The prizes are given for those considered as the best in fiction and documentaries, with the categories sub-divided […]
{sidebar id=38}{mosimage}The new and hilarious comedy from Will Ferrell will not let his fans down. This time, he sets the ice rink on fire as the ultimate sex bomb on skates. I must admit that I am getting more and more hooked with Will Ferrell’s movies. When it is about time to see comedies with […]
{mosimage}{sidebar id=37}One of the nicest surprise last year in the Finnish film industry was this Suden Vuosi (The year of the Wolf). Now available on DVD. K rista Kosonen has become one of the biggest surprises of the Finnish cinema landscape during last years, not only for her undeniable beauty, but also for her good […]
The presentation, organised by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, is the first ever retrospective of Schjerfbeck’s art in France. It contains 125 paintings, watercolours and drawings as well as documentary material. Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 – 1946) is one of the most acclaimed female painters from Northern Europe, and her unique, ascetic yet expressive style is drawing a […]
{mosimage}Sunrise Avenue is one of the new Finnish bands that got quite a big international success, especially in Germany. They present their new DVD: Live in Wonderland. The band appeared recently also in the news for not such a happy reason: their guitar player and founder member Janne Kärkkäinen was fired due to differences with […]
{sidebar id=34}Danny Boyle is one of the most exciting English directors during last decades, with fresh products like Trainspotting or 28 Days Later (and some other films that failed, like the disappointing The Beach). Now, with this Sunshine, he has achieved a product that pays homage to some science fiction classics, being the most obvious […]
They say that everything is hotter there in the South of USA. It must be true for the character played by Christina Ricci, Rae, since she cannot control the sexual desire that turns her body, specially the part between here legs totally crazy, due to abuses suffered from childhood. Samuel L. Jackson is the God-fearing […]
{mosimage}One of the nicest surprises in the Finnish heavy metal scene this year: Waltari with their new album: Release Date. Waltari has a long story, being formed in 1986. The band from Helsinki started singing in Finnish, but the changed to English language in the mid 90s. What we have here is their new album […]
Mollberg also worked as a radio and TV drama director with Finnish public broadcasting company YLE for nearly forty years. Between 1968-1986 he was the director of the theatrical department of YLE TV2. Mollberg had been suffering from leukaemia for the past four years. He passed away in a health centre in Loimaa, western Finland, […]
{mosimage}Despite the fact I consider myself a fan of Matti Johannes Koivu’s work both in his solo career and the band Ultramariini, I am probably not the right person to review this album. No person whose age is a two-digit number is, since Topsi ja tohtori Koirasson is an album for children. Children’s music has […]
{mosimage}Jarkko Martikainen has maintained surprisingly good quality in his work both in his band YUP and his solo career. Martikainen’s latest offering, a live album consisting of songs he’s performing accompanying himself with an acoustic guitar, is – for the most part – no exception to the rule. He is one of the sharpest lyricists […]
In any case, watching the Princess Bride took me into the old habit of making a top ten about some aspect of cinema (something we did during the printed edition of FREE! Magazine), so this time I wanted to write my top ten of princesses in movies. If you think of other names to […]
{mosimage}During mid 90s, there was no pub or venue in Finland where Smilers did not play. They gained lots of experience in the music circuit, but the success was waiting at the other side of the Baltic Sea. Nowadays, there is no other band in Estonia with so many well known radio hits and catchy […]
{mosimage}Bruce Springsteen’s new album Magic arrived in stores in the U.S. on Tuesday October 2nd, and Bruce and the E-Street Band kicked off their worldtour on the same day in Hartford, Connecticut (155 km from New York City). This is the first album by Bruce and the E-Street Band since 2002’s The Rising and their […]