Babel

My best advice is to go into this film with as few preconceptions as possible and enjoy an experience that’s become increasingly rare since the heyday of the 1970s: an intelligent Hollywood film with something important on its mind.

Lasermannen

Lasermannen is a superb series. It oozes a creepy, realistic quality. The tired detectives, frustrated by yet more weird shootings and crazy, irrational behaviour to follow-up. Bewildered people that knew Ausonius and had to deal with him in person. Along with the victims themselves, the horribly unfortunate people shot at random and the people caught up in his other criminal behaviour.

Sad, sickening events that helped create a nasty climate in Sweden at that time.

Grim, of course, but it is also a high point in Swedish television production.

Syriana

A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Good night and good luck

Good Night and Good Luck captures a moment in time.We look back on the fifties as a simpler time, our period of innocence. This film tells us straight and true that it was no simpler and no more innocent than our lives today.In fact, the sharpest contrast drawn between today and back then is the intelligence and the literacy, the erudition and the commitment to the tenets of good journalism of Edward R. Murrow and his crew.I cannot picture a Brian Williams or anyone else telling the owner of the network, as Murrow tells Bill Paley, “I can’t make it to the game tonight. Thanks for inviting me, but I’m busy tearing down your network.” A flawlessly executed film, the acting ensemble well cast, the point clearly and eloquently made.

Brokeback mountain

Set against the sweeping vistas of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, this film tells the story of two young men – a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy – who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Touching story about impossible and forbidden love.

A cool performance by Miles Davis!

What a sad way to start a democracy in a country with the execution of its previous leader. I am in no way defending the man and his life but to kill him and kill him even before he stood trial for half of the things he was accused for is letting him out easy first of all. Second of all it is sad that the death penalty is still alive and kicking in Iraq.A country where killing has been the root to so mach pain and suffering. They are Inspired by the USA and mr Bush. George Bush hailed the action last night which proves another wrong step in his presidency. And again a lack of judgement and understanding for politics outside the USA.(which effects his politics inside the USA.)

I am sad to hear of mr Husseins Death. I am sad that Bush hailed it and I am sad that Iraq is in such a horrible state.

95 prosent of swedes are against the death penalty! But 70 prosent want Saddam Hussein sentenced to death and executed!

I wish all friends and family and others who might find there way here a blessed,peacefull and happy Christ mass. Here in Sweden we still hold on to the old word “Jul” which was a pagan sun festival but was transformed into christ mass like the res of the world when christianity changed pagan festivals into christian ones!

I will with my wife Johanna spend the first part of Christmas here in Sweden and the second part with my family in Norway!

And then soon Cape town here we come!

Happy Christmas!