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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Film
I've found out about the spooky cartoon show my daughter watches that I wondered about, the one where one character looks just like Riff-raff in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's Die Schule der kleinen Vampire / School for Vampires,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Film
Via Luftwaffe Flak at Boardgamegeek.com...
Posted by Martin R at 4:42 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Film
Screen writer Peter Moffat clearly expected a strong sodomy taboo among the viewers. In 2009.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Film
Here's more info. Thanks to Asko for the heads-up!...
Posted by Martin R at 1:43 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Film
Last week was skiing break for my kids. I couldn't find anywhere good to stay in the mountains, so we didn't go off on holiday. Here's what we did for fun instead. Dinner at the home of a Chinese...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Film
The moon Pandora, Avatar's world, is Tolkien's ents on a global scale. It's Lovelock's natty old Gaia "hypothesis" turned concrete reality.
Posted by Martin R at 3:00 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Film
From Birmingham art students Tanya Mircheva and Mihaela Calin, a clip about office-job boredom....
Posted by Martin R at 3:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Film
My wife and I watched the 2004 biopic Kinsey last night, about ground-breaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey. Good movie, good acting, interesting theme. And there's an added perk for fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. To the extent that the...
Posted by Martin R at 2:10 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Film
A few years ago my friend David the Psychonaut gave me an mp3 file with the greatest song, "Jan Pehechan-Ho" by Mohammed Rafi. And now another friend, Tanya the Cosmopolite, links to the song's over-the top Bollywood dance number,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Film
When I was offered a review copy of the new documentary film 10 Yards Fantasy Football, I replied, "No use sending that to a guy with no interest either in real nor imaginary football. But please do send me your...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
The film is good edutainment, but has a number of flaws.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Film
John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2004 debut novel Låt den rätte komma in came as a pleasant surprise. From a stand-up comedian of respectable but unremarkable standing, suddenly we had this excellent vampire novel set in a staid Stockholm suburb in 1982...
Posted by Martin R at 3:59 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Humour
When was the last time you saw the Muppets perform "Mahna mahna"?...
Posted by Martin R at 5:50 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: Film
What about the scientists? Are all of them real? Some of them? None?
Posted by Martin R at 5:00 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Late Palaeolithic people sail across the Atlantic to illustrate the Solutrean hypothesis, and the mast is at the aft of the boat. Painful stuff.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Film
There was a time, around the age of twenty, when I saw some pretty weird movies. First I lived a short bike ride from the Swedish Film Institute, where I caught Kenneth Anger and Luis Buñuel (neither of whom I...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Film
I'm spending tomorrow in a cultic field with Per Vikstrand and a metal detector. So I reckon it were best if we all had a look at the druggiest bit in all of Monty Python first....
Posted by Martin R at 4:42 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Film
Three siblings move to a big old house and find the field journal of their great-grand-uncle who studied fairies.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Film
My friend Mickey Huss (the virtual lamprey guy) has alerted me to the existence of near-future noir flick Gene Generation. It's said to be the first Hollywood movie directed by a Singaporean. I haven't seen it, but I gotta...
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Humour
Scandy readers will be very familiar with this. As we learned from "Hatten Är Din", "Ansiktsburk", "Fiskpinnar" and other Turk Hits back in 2000, you can get wonderfully absurd results if you listen to a song in a foreign language...
Posted by Martin R at 3:44 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Humour
It says here that the hero is wearing a piece of cod!
Posted by Martin R at 1:46 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
A product way off the scale on the weirdometer.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Music
A charming interview with Apples in Stereo front man Robert Schneider.
Posted by Martin R at 4:23 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Tonight, my metal detecting team and I go on the Swedish State Broadcasting company's TV science show for kids.
Posted by Martin R at 9:44 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Film
I am in mourning for a character in Six Feet Under who died on us last night.
Posted by Martin R at 6:23 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Film
Every single TV series I've ever felt even mildly interested in watching.
Posted by Martin R at 5:06 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Children
Luke Skywalker's grandma, mother and sister were the same person to him.
Posted by Martin R at 4:14 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Film
The plot is driven entirely by the pointless cruelty of a psychopath.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 12 Comments •
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