Swarez
Reykjavik, Iceland

As a burned out pop star Swarez turned his back on the soul sucking existens that was the music biz, and his label had just dropped him, to focus on more important things; blogging about movies. In the beginning he pestered Mr. Brown with tidbits from the Icelandic movie scene until he was asked to join the team as a contributing writer and to be the most handsome one on the team. He was only recently upstaged in the latter category when Ryland Aldrich came bursting in with his dreamy looks. Swarez vows revenge on Aldrich ever since. AAAAALLDRICHHH!

Man Is Still The Warmest Place To Hide. THE THING Trailer.
To proclaim that John Carpenter's THE THING is one of the greatest horror films ever made would be an understatement for many. A commercial and a critical failure upon its release it later rose to become one of the kings... More »
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Fantastic Fest 2011: FIRST WAVE ANNOUNCED!
There are three things certain in this world. Death and taxes and that Fantastic Fest is the most ass kicking festival there is. And you can take that to the bank!The first wave of titles featured at this year's festival,... More »
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Watch Icelandic Movies Online.
Lately Icelandic cinema has been making bigger strides in to the international market place but many of the older films have remained undiscovered for the rest of the world. To remedy that a group of producers and distributers have banded together... More »
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Cannes 2011: VOLCANO REVIEW
Back in 1974 the volcano on the small island of Vestmaneyjar of the coast of Iceland suddenly erupted in the middle of the night, devastating the community and laying to waste a large section of the area. After evacuating the island... More »
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Behind the scenes on Black Curse from the producers of Pusher and Hostel
I haven't talked about this film much as it's been in the pipeline for seems like ages but only recently got the go ahead to start filming. Based on a controversial crime novel by Stefán Máni Black Curse revolves around... More »
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The Adventures of Kevin Bacon in Thailand. ELEPHANT WHITE Trailer.
After the success of Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong on the international scene it was only a matter of time when the US studios would come knocking on director Prachya Pinkaew's door asking him to recreate the success on... More »
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Icelandic Zombies! UNDYING LOVE Trailer.
One of the perks of writing for an international movie website is that you can sometimes pimp your own wares, so this is a completely selfish act that I hope some people might enjoy.Last summer, with the help from some... More »
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Get your pop art on at Spoke Art's Quentin vs Coen show in NY TODAY!
Today on the 7th of april the people at Spoke Art unveil their follow up show to Angry Dads, artists tackling the films of Brad Anderson, with Quentin vs Coen, a massive show centering around the films of Quentin Tarantino... More »
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Watch "To My Mother and Father" online.
Each year Fantastic Fest gets a shit ton of short films to screen over the course of the festival, most of them pretty damn awesome. Last year Can Evrenol screened his weird and disturbing short film To My Mother and... More »
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Sci-fi musketeers from the Wild Wild West?
This weekend the first trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers 3D was released upon the masses and while this story has been thrown on the silver screen countless of times Anderson tries to pop up the story by... More »
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BATTLE: LOS ANGELES Review.
Don't be fooled by the ad campaign for Battle Los Angeles, making it look like something more than a generic sci-fi action film. It isn't. It is pretty much a generic sci-fi action film but one that takes a different... More »
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Brim and The Good Heart clean up the Icelandic Eddas
Our annual film and TV awards, The Edda, was held on saturday and indy darlings Brim (Undercurrent) and The Good Heart took home a large chunk of the awards. Brim took Best Picture, Lead Actress, Cinematography, Editing, Sound Design and... More »
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I AM NUMBER FOUR Review
I can't say I was terribly excited to see I Am Number Four, the trailer was weak sauce and one hardly heard anything about it on the interwebs or anywhere else. What I did know was that it was produced... More »
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Swarez doesn't want to be left out and posts his top ten list.
While I didn't see near as many films this year as some of the fine gentlemen who write for this site I did see my fair share of gems. Below is a list of films I thought stood out this... More »
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Stormland has a trailer.
A few months ago I posted about the Icelandic dark comedy Stormland, based on the best selling book of the same name by Icelandic author Hallgrímur Helgason.The film, directed by Marteinn (One point O) Thorsson, tells the story about a bitter man... More »
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Tron: Legacy Review
I was never a big fan of Tron, only seen it a couple of times really and the last time was quite a while ago. So it's safe to say that I'm not immersed in this mythology or care about... More »
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Poster Alert! Guillermo Del Toro series
Fans of Mondo and collectable posters listen up. Today Mondotees will put up for sale the first entry in their brand spanking new Director's series focusing on the films of Guillermo Del Toro. They have been doing some fantastic work... More »
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Midnight Legacy to cater to cult collectors.
***UPDATE*** It seems that I was a bit ahead of myself when I proclaimed that ML would cater to collectors worldwide as Amazon doesn't ship this title outside the US. But I know that this is something that ML did... More »
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I guess ABBA wasn't the only demonic prophesy that came out of Sweden. PSALM 21 has actual demons.

While looking into Swedish zombie film ZON 261 I saw that the production company had already made another horror feature that was released last week in Sweden, Psalm 21. A religious horror story about a priest haunted by horrible dreams... More »
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Fresh new take on the zombie? From Sweden?
With The Walking Dead seemingly injecting new vigor in to zombie fandom I'm suspecting the on coming amount of zombie material that will pour out of Hollywood and the independent industry will be paramount. People have been afraid of tinkering... More »
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