If last year we saw Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara, now French director Olivier Assayas brings us the story of one of the most wanted fighters (for others he […]
Review Tuska festival 2010
Text by Maila-Kaarina The first day of the biggest metal festival of Finland came out and all those who attended had to be ready for something really big: 34 bands, […]
Review – Youth in Revolt
A new teenage comedy is here, directed Miguel Arteta, and starred by the new king of the genre, Michael Cera. When I saw the cover of the DVD, I had […]
Do not miss this video: Danny MacAskill – “Way Back Home”
I discovered by chance this video a couple of days ago, and I cannot take it out of my mind. The photography of Scottish landscapes is amazingly beautiful, the songs […]
Miesten Vuoro Review
Ask your average English-speaking layman to play a game of Word Association, and the chances are, if you say Finland, that if they don’t opt for ‘cold’, or ‘depressed’, the […]
Swallow The Sun – Interview with Juha Raivio and Matti Honkonen
Swallow The Sun is a Finnish melodic death/doom metal band formed in 2000 by guitarist Juha Raivio. So far they have released 4 albums, 2 singles, 3 music videos and […]
Elks do not speak English by John Murolo
There are not many books published in English language that tell the experience of a foreigner living in Finland. So Elks Do Not Speak English, by English author John Murolo, […]
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin – Review
Swedish literature is living a golden age, not only because of the Millennium trilogy by Stig Larsson, but by many other interesting novelists such as the current one: Johan Theorin, […]
Interview with Satyricon
Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band that was formed in 1990. Mainly the band consists of two members – Satyr and Frost. Satyricon are in a way an exception […]
Interview with Megadeth’s drummer Shawn Drover
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson following Mustaine’s departure from Metallica. The band has released 12 studio albums, […]
Be positive in Latvia!
The 16th and 17th of July will be celebrated in Salacgriva, a beautiful Latvian town just 10 kilometers from the Estonian border, a new edition of Positivus Festival, that was […]
Review Greenday Helsinki concert. 9 June, 2010.
Going for first time to see Greenday live was a kind of sentimental experience for me. Greenday and Offspring were those bands that introduced me and my friends to punk […]
Review AC/DC. Tampere concert. 1 June, 2010
AC/DC was basically the biggest band in the world that I still had not had the chance to see live. So it was a double pleasure when I could finally […]
The Brothers Bloom
Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo are the best con men in the world, able since childhood to plan amazing scenarios to cheat people around. The beginning of the movie is […]