Fogo Island Inn ,Newfoundland, Canada is a hotel I definitely want to visit having seen this picture.
Share this with your boss: Naps help productivity
I have written over the years about the benefits of naps. “Powernaps” used to be popular but then the tide turned against them without any medical evidence to back it up. The Washington Post reminds all of us why napping in the afternoon is so good for us.
Why you should be proud to sleep [Read More]
The Dallas Buyers Club
This year the members of the Academy of Motion Picture have to make a very difficult choice when they vote for the Oscar in the best actor category.
For me the choice comes down to either Chiwetel Ejiofor for his performance in 12 Years a Slave or Matthew McConaughey for his portrayal of a homophobic hustler [Read More]
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gasdanov
I am still high from reading this fantastic novel. A week ago I started reading this deep story about life and death composed by Gaito Gazdanov in Russian.
I could not put it down even though I had plenty of distractions to keep me from it. Gazdanov learned from Marcel Proust, but I personally [Read More]
12 Years a Slave
The film manages to grab you on a deep emotional level. I felt like I was myself loosing my freedom to become a slave.
Part of why the film works so well is the impeccable acting of Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is able to show with quiet facial expression how awful one feels losing what we today [Read More]
Her
This is a love story, a kind that you have never seen before. Spike Jonze has created a cinematic event that you should not miss.
Just as in Being John Malkovich, Jonze explores deeply philosophical themes by imagining a world where the software that is presently driving Siri (Apple’s iPhone intelligent assistant) has become so [Read More]
Of Gods and Men
Oh, French films, what a hit and miss affair. Of Men and Gods chronicles the faith of seven French monks, who staff a small monastery in Algeria.
As militant groups start killing people, the monks ponder whether they should stay and continue the work in the Muslim country. Even when government official become concerned [Read More]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Would The Secret Life of Walter Mitty appeal to a teenage audience? Or can you even bring your kids and they would enjoy themselves? I don’t think so. To connect with this film, you need to be a bit older and have developed the sometimes unsettling sense that your dreams my not come true.
I [Read More]
Philomena
50 years Philomena kept a secret from her entire family. When she was 18 and without any knowledge how babies are made she “ate the forbidden fruit” after meeting a boy at a country fair.
In Catholic Ireland of the 1950s girls like her would be routinely sent to a convent where the child would [Read More]
Helmut Schmidt turns 95
On the occasion on his 95th birthday (23. December 1918), German public television produced and televised a docudrama of the life of the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
Lebensfragen (The big questions of life) is based on a long interview and the reenactment of the highlights of Schmidt’s life. The interview was conducted by the [Read More]