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The Girl With the Foreign Language Franchise
How “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” became the year’s surprise arthouse hit.

It is out on DVD now. It’s available streaming from Netflix. I strongly recommend you watch this Swedish film, before the American remake ruins things!

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I have seen this video in a couple of different Blogs lately, and found it interesting. Fact is I much prefer intelligent character driven movies to the over-loud, plot-less, CGI-laden cartoons that seem to be all the rage these days. Maybe that’s why I like foreign films so much. So, at the risk of being [...]

The death this week of 2 actors who are fondly remembered from my childhood reminded me once again that I’m getting old. On Monday of this week came news that actor Peter Graves had passed away. While many people remember him as Jim Phelps from the 1960’s series ‘Mission Impossible‘ (and the 1988 revival of [...]

The character to the left is my new favorite literary heroine, Lisbeth Salander. Well, actually, the picture is of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace as the character Lisbeth Salander from the Swedish film Män som hatar kvinnor (“Men who hate women”) or as it was published in English ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘. I picked [...]

Ahhh, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Steppenwolf, what could be more reminiscent of the end of the 60’s? To tell the truth, Easy Rider is not one of my favorite films. I find it overlong and self-indulgent. But 40 years after its release, it seems to be finding new respectability.  A good chunk of the [...]

Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.
I loved the first, original, Star Wars. Now the fans are going to remake it… 15 seconds at a time. On this site, fans get to sign up for up to 3 fifteen second scenes. Then they film the scene, upload it to the site, and the [...]

Since I was on the subject of Vampire movies in the last post, I couldn’t move on without mentioning one of the most original entries in the genre. Last year’s Swedish import, “Let the Right One In” is a new very original take on the vampire legend. It is all the more moody and atmospheric [...]

I’ve been watching the HBO series “True Blood”. I have liked vampire stories/movies since I was a kid. My first exposure to the Dracula story happened in 1958 when I saw the Hammer Film version of Dracula starring Christopher Lee as the nasty count. I was hooked. Of course I had to read the Bram [...]

As someone who grewup in the 50’s and 60’s, and loved movies, Paul Newman has been someone I watched and admired for a long time. The first movie I remember with Paul Newman as a star was ‘The Long Hot Summer’, where he met Joanne Woodward. Although I had seen ‘Silver Chalice’ and ‘Somebody Up [...]