I’m partial to Soderbergh projects, so far my disclaimer. A full-body action-movie in Soderbergh tradition and optic. The narrative has a Sherlockian feel as flashbacks mix with present day scenes and 75 % of the dialogue happens in the last 20 minutes. Fast paced, entertaining girl-against-the-world thriller, quite light on the plot-front, but who questions the [...]

After months of build up, press coverage and anticipation, Ⅰ have seen The Iron Lady. Ⅰ am thoroughly disappointed. Maybe it is just not my kind of film. Apart from staggering acting performances and a few snappy dialogues this movie hasn’t done much for me.

Yesterday, the world lost one of its last Renaissance men: after an eight year battle with pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs passed away. Apple​.com Steve Jobs 1955–2011 Apple: Remembering Steve Jobs Ⅰ lay awake when the news broke last night. Even though all signs pointed towards a deterioration of his health situation, this feels too early. Struck [...]

Here is the magic and Ⅰ try to deconstruct it and say it’s not really magic, it’s something anybody can do if you have the right mentality. … Ⅰ think the Jobsian approach is something that other people can do. It’s almost like there’s a secret formula to it, but there is a formula. The [...]

The remarkable stories from the past that draw me always have in essence a kind of essential preoccupation with what happens to people in times of catastrophe or in times of great change and stress. Who is drawn to become their best self and who their worst self. And because any story that’s more than a [...]

After watching Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows I in December last year, a friend asked me for my opinion of the film. This is not a children’s movie anymore. This is adult stuff.

Ⅰ knew it would happen eventually: The morning Ⅰ moved into the Democracy House Ⅰ was told that given a certain amount of time in the project, one will wake up in the middle of the night and ask herself: Democracy? Why? It starts to happen to me, now. You can read a not so [...]