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Review: RIDERS OF JUSTICE, Mads Mikkelsen Leads the Charge
Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Andrea Heick Gadeberg star in an action-comedy/drama from director Anders Thomas Jensen.
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...
Department Q Dives Into Fanaticism In The A CONSPIRACY OF FAITH Trailer
Director Hans Petter Moland has some big shoes to fill with the upcoming thriller A Conspiracy Of Faith. The third film in the ongoing series of adaptations of Jussi Adler Olsen's Department Q novels, Faith follows on the heels of...
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...
Fantastic Fest 2014 Review: THE ABSENT ONE Chronicles The Infuriating Power Of Evil
Absolute evil exists in this world, and that is absolutely infuriating. When it's captured in a murder mystery whose premise sounds like a thousand other murder mysteries, that is either a blessing or a curse. When it comes to The...
THE ABSENT ONE: Watch The Full Trailer For The Danish Thriller
Director Mikkel Nørgaard laid waste to the Danish box office - breaking a handful of records - with The Keeper Of Lost Causes, the first big screen adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q crime novels. And so anticipation has been...
Watch The Official UK Trailer For Nordic Noir THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES
Having blown the doors off the Danish box office - where it set multiple records - and with the sequel already deep into the production process, Mikkel Norgaard's big screen adaptation of Jussi Adler Olsen's crime thriller The Keeper Of...
Return To Department Q With A Gorgeous Teaser For Mikkel Nørgaard's THE ABSENT ONE
Director Mikkel Nørgaard laid waste to the Danish box office - breaking a handful of records - with The Keeper Of Lost Causes, the first big screen adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q crime novels. And so anticipation has been...
Review: Though Predictable, THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES Is An Unsettling Crime Thriller
Crime thrillers undoubtedly play a huge role in the creation of Danish culture. There is a countless list of gritty, dark, suspenseful titles that made this particular genre a trademark of sorts of both Danish literature and films. Over the...
Euro Beat: First Image From Mike Leigh's J.M.W. Turner Project!
Also in today's edition of Euro Beat: Catherine Deneuve turns 70 and remains awesome, Alain Delon goes a little nuts at 77 (or has he always been?), promising films win at the London Film Festival, plus, Europe takes back its...
Denmark's KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES Posts Best Opening Weekend In A Decade
So, let's say it's 2010 and you're Danish director Mikkel Norgaard. You've just made the step into feature films with the big screen outing of popular television series Klown - which you previously directed six full seasons of - and...
Visit Department Q In Full Trailer For Danish Thriller THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES
Fans of the current wave of Nordic Noir - high class crime films and television series coming from Scandinavia, including the likes of The Killing, The Bridge and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - have been keeping an eye...
Watch The First Teaser For Danish Crime Thriller THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES
On the surface it is a move that feels like a remarkable departure - Mikkel Norgaard, best known as the director of outrageous Danish comedy Klown being handed the reins to a major new series of Danish crime novel adaptations...
The Director Of KLOWN Goes Dark With Crime Thriller THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES
Call it a change of pace for director Mikkel Norgaard. A really, really big change of pace. Best known as the director of Klown - or Clown, or Klovn, depending on where you are - the comedy for which he...
Kim Bodnia Goes Rogue In Danish Thriller THE SHOOTER (SKYTTEN)
Boasting an all star cast of Kim Bodnia, Nikolaj Lie-Kaas and Trine Dyrholm, Annette K Olesen's The Shooter is not at all what international audiences have come to expect from Danish cinema. Eschewing the arthouse it looks to be a...
TIFF 2011: A FUNNY MAN Review
A comic genius with designs at being something more, Dirch Passer was one of the most prolific and beloved Danish performers of all time. From his rise in the late 1940s until his death in 1980 Passer was one of...
TIFF 2011: Trailer For Denmark's A FUNNY MAN
Nikolaj Lie Kaas takes the lead in Martin Zandvliet's A Funny Man (Dirch), the Toronto International Film Festival selected bio-pic of Danish comic Dirch Passer.Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that...
