This beautiful frozen mountain village next to a glacier in Norway was the filming location used for the ice planet Hoth in Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back during a blizzard in 1979.
Journey to the Christmas Star is a Norwegian fairy tale movie from 1976, based on a theatre play from 1924.
The film has aired on television in Norway every December 24th for decades, and even had a 2012 remake which was made in collaboration with Disney.
Here’s a list of my top 10 favorite Christmas movies!
I’ve ranked which of these holiday films I think are the best.
Hope you find something you like 😀 https://sindrelf.com/2017/12/08/my-top-10-christmas-movies/
Here’s a list of my top 10 favorite Halloween movies!
I’ve ranked which of these fun and gothic horror films I think are the best.
Hope you find something you like 😀
Have you noticed that Norway keeps popping up in big budget Hollywood blockbuster movies lately, as either a filming location or even as part of the story?
While there there used to be very few references to Norway in English-language films and television shows, you’re now much more likely to see Norway appear in American or British pop culture.
You’ve probably seen Disney animated movies ranked in a tier list before.
You may even have seen someone ranking the Disney Princesses.
There used to be a phenomenon in Norway where the title of a lot of American and other international comedy films were translated into Norwegian as “Help, Something Something”. I thought it might be funny if I translated these titles back into English.
The last few years have been a wonderful time to be a Spider-Man fan.
So I figured I’d make a video essay talking about my favorite Spider-Man movies, video games and TV show.
It’s fascinating where the winding roads of history can lead you once you start heading down one of its paths. In this video, I journey from the video game Among Us becoming massively popular in 2020, and end up at Norwegian and British explorers racing toward the South Pole in 1911.
Among Us is an online multiplayer deduction game from 2018 that became massively popular in 2020.
While the gameplay is inspired by party games like Mafia and Werewolf, the narrative backdrop is inspired by Ridley Scott’s Alien film from 1979 and John Carpenter’s The Thing from 1982.
In this episode of the Geekare Humanum podcast, Sindre and Renate discuss: Halloween traditions, great Halloween movies, Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
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This is a video essay adaptation of my Universal Monsters article.
Universal monster films are some of the best early horror movies there are. Join me as I take a look at these movie gems, and gush over the great work of Bella Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Claude Rains, and James Whale.