{sidebar id=23} Director Mark Steven Johnson was not very popular character for comic fans after his weak adaptations of previous comics Elektra and Daredevil. It seems that he does not want to “disappoint” anyone with this reputation completing with this Ghost Rider a trilogy of films to forget. Not even a couple of Hollywood super […]
{mosimage}Moneybrother (aka Anders Wendin) is the latest rock star in Sweden. His latest album Mount Pleasure reached the top of the charts in the neighboring country this summer. No surprise here. This is a very fine album, a good collection of catchy songs and sweet melodies. The artwork, featuring Anders Wendin looking straight at the […]
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Sail the world
{mosimage} Auli Irjala made her dream come true and sailed the world for four year with her husband Hannu Aulin. They visited places like Greenland, Tonga, Mexico, New Zealand and Alaska, only few to mention. She wrote a book of their adventures called Meren Selkä Taittuu (The Stories of Sailing on Kristiina, Edita 2007). […]
{sidebar id=22} We saw snipers in films like the new version of The Jackal (1997, and by the way, for those lovers of the detail, the action of the movie was starting in Helsinki) or most recently with Jarhead, a shout of alert against the paranoid mood that accompanies the American soldiers while staying in […]
{sidebar id=21} The king of the comedy is back, and stronger than ever! 2006 was an important year for Eddie Murphy with two new films released: Dreamgirls and the one in spotlight here: Norbit. After making us laugh with his voice as the Donkey of Shrek, the help of new technologies plays an important […]
{mosimage}The Heroin Diaries is the soundtrack to Nikki Sixx recently published addiction memoir. In the book Motley Crüe’s bass player shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiralled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine. Surprisingly enough, the soundtrack to the book does not have much to do with the music […]
{sidebar id=19} Reality and fantasy world get mixed in the last work of director Guillermo del Toro: Pan´s Labyrinth, being the second of his films framed on times of post civil war in Spain, after his terror tale in an isolated orphanage in The Devil's Backbone (2001). The film is visually astonishing, with detailed […]
{mosimage}Uniklubi, the young band from Tampere, releases their third studio album, Luotisade, after having becoming the favourite of many teenagers in Finland due in great part to their previous hit included in their first album (and named after that song): Rakkautta ja Piikkilankaa. Being quite an unusual feature, in Uniklubi the bass player, Teemu Rajämaki, […]
Turbojugends of the world, rejoice! Get your asses ready! The best fat gay Norwegian punk metal band has a new album out and it is a helluva album. With Retox, Turbonegro goes back to the basics, gets heavy and deliver its best album since the classic Apocalypse Dudes (1998). Turbonegro returned from hiatus in 2003 […]
The long-desired Archive would contain material from both public broadcasting company YLE and other broadcasters and will most probably be connected to the Finnish Film Archive, according to Riita Kaivosoja, Director General at the Ministry of Education, responsible for culture politics, in Helsingin Sanomat (4.8.2007). The Ministry is also willing to support digitalisation of Finnish […]
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From rainy Tartu with love!
I assisted to Tuska festival in Helsinki at the beginning of June; the streets of the capital were literally taken by an army of metal fans dressed in black. There I had the chance to talk for almost one hour in the backstage with Fernando Ribeiro, the singer of Moonspell (interview will appear in our […]
Spitfire was founded in the early nineties as a garage rock group but later turned to a unique way of playing skapunk. The band from Saint Petersburg has played in Finland numerous times and performs in both Russian and English. Ankkarock is held this weekend (4 and 5 August) in Vantaa. Spitfire will play Saturday […]
{mosimage}Any new album by Hanoi Rocks has to be celebrated. After so many years, it is a wonder that Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy are still doing music together. Some might even say that it’s a wonder that they are still alive. But indeed, they are very much alive and Street Poetry is their best […]
{sidebar id=15}The first feature film of Scottish director Kevin MacDonald focuses on the figure of Idi Amin, army officer and president of Uganda between 1971 and 1979. But rather than being a biopic of the atrocities and actions of the dictator, the film shows the relationship between Amin, played by Forest Whitaker, and the fictional […]
Just look at the names in the list: Apulanta, Hanoi Rocks, Ari Koivunen (the young heavy metal singer, last winner of Finnish idols) Viikate, Liekki, Sunrise Avenue, Uniklubi or Tea gives some good examples of how healthy the hard rock scene is nowadays in Finland, while new names like Hanna Pakarinen (the Finnish representative during […]