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Toronto 2021 Review: THE MIDDLE MAN, A Deadpan Comedy about Life
The small midwestern town of Karmack is dying. Figuratively, as its principal industry, a rail-yard, have been lost to the vagaries of globalization. Also, quite literally, as there has been a lengthy string of fatal accidents that prompts the town...
Friday One Sheet: THE MIDDLE MAN
I remain committed to showcasing key art that makes good use of textured wallpaper. In this case, the poster is for a Canadian/Norwegian production from deadpan director Bent Hamer. Hamer's films are difficult to describe, oddball dramas, subtle comedies, ultra-niche...
SMALL TOWN KILLERS Giveaway: Win An iTunes Code For Danish Comedy Crime Drama
Ole Bornedal's Small Town Killers is now available on VOD, Digital HD, DVD & Blu-ray from RLJE Films and SHUDDER. We have two iTunes codes to give away to two lucky Screen Anarchy readers in the U.S. In SMALL...
The Department Q Cops Return In JOURNAL 64
With the adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q novels breaking box office records in Denmark - where previous entries The Keeper Of Lost Causes, The Absent One, and A Conspiracy Of Faith were all huge hits - it comes as...
Poland Has A PANIC ATTACK
While I do not understand a single word spoken in the trailer for Pawel Maslona's upcoming Polish feature Panic Attack (Atak Paniki) there is absolutely zero problem understanding exactly what is happening. The premise is a simple one with the...
SMALL TOWN KILLERS: Watch The Trailer For Bornedal's Dark Danish Comedy
We've been keeping an eye on Danish helmer Ole Bornedal's upcoming dark comedy Small Town Killers for some time now and today we were rewarded with the first theatrical trailer of the latest from Denmark's merry (and violent) prankster. Ib...
SMALL TOWN KILLERS: Watch A Clip From Bornedal's Latest
Denamrk's Ole Bornedal is a long time favorite in these parts, a maverick of worts who was crafting dark genre films in his homeland long before the whole Nordic Noir movement made it somehow okay to be a Dane who...
Ulrich Thomsen And Nicolas Bro Are SMALL TOWN KILLERS
Once an anomaly in the Danish film industry for his love of genre oriented film, Nightwatch helmer Ole Bornedal's tastes have become far more mainstream not because he has changed himself but because the Scandinavian nation itselt has become far...
Fabulously Grotesque Posters And Trailer For Jensen's MEN AND CHICKENS
Though you wouldn't necessarily know it from his script writing work - work, it should be said, that has garnered multiple Oscars - those who know Denmark's Anders Thomas Jensen's directorial work already know that there's a deliciously dark streak...
Mikkelsen Rubs One Out In The First Teaser For Anders Thomas Jensen's MEN AND CHICKEN
Sometimes a man could use a little bit of privacy and Mads Mikkelsen just isn't getting any in the first teaser for Anders Thomas Jensen's upcoming Men And Chicken. The film marks the return of Jensen to the director's chair...
Rotterdam 2014 Review: SORROW AND JOY Could Not Be More Aptly Named
(Ever loved something you expected to hate? THIS FILM!) This year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam dedicated a whole section of its "Signals" program to Danish director Nils Malmros. As I was not really aware of his work, this event...
Udo Has An Orgasm In The New Poster Campaign For Lars Von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC
Ever wondered what Udo Kier looks like when having an orgasm? Stellan Skarsgard? Uma Thurman? Willem Dafoe? Charlotte Gainsbourg? Jamie Bell? Christian Slater? Connie Nielsen? Well, wonder no more because a new poster campaign has arrived for Lars Von Trier's...
TIFF 2013 Review: SEX, DRUGS & TAXATION Is A Gonzo Biopic So Strange It Has To be True
Just as you are unlikely to ever come across a more unlikely friendship than that which blossomed between browbeaten tax lawyer Mogens Glistrup and hedonist playboy Simon Spies through the 1960s in Denmark, you are equally unlikely to settle on...
Ole Bornedal Helms Denmark's Most Expensive Television Series Ever, Check First Stills From Period War Piece 1864
Danish director Ole Bornedal - much loved in these parts for films such as Deliver Us From Evil and The Substitute - is sure to make a major splash across Europe with his current project, though he's moving from big...
Witness The Awesome Urinary Powers Of ANTBOY In First Trailer
Ants. They're strong. They crawl. And apparently their urine is acid. Such are the powers granted to young Pelle in upcoming Danish kids' superhero flick Antboy.12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from...
Nicolas Bro Is The Flea! Fear Him!
One of ScreenAnarchy's favorite character actors gets to play super villain in Ask Hasselbalch's upcoming adaptation of popular children's books Antboy. 12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book...
Flash A Gorilla With Pilou Asbaek In The Trailer For SEX, DRUGS & TAXATION
A man exposing himself to a gorilla is not what I would typically expect to see in the trailer for a new film by Christoffer Boe but evidently this is what happens when the director of Reconstruction, Beast, and Offscreen...
Nicolas Bro And Pilou Asbaek Unrecognizable In First Shots From Christoffer Boe's SEX, DRUGS & TAXATION
A long time favorite here at ScreenAnarchy, director Christoffer Boe is taking a sharp turn into some different territory with his next film and he's taking a pair of our favorite actors - Nicolas Bro and Pilou Asbaek - with...
