Tag: sweden
Friday One Sheet: OPPONENT
Design house riddertoft has been featured in this column several times. Their diverse work on titles such as Triangle of Sadness, Holy Spider, and Another Round, is always exceptional. Their key art, below, for Milad Alami's immigrant wrestling drama Opponent, is an...
Friday One Sheet: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
This poster, for Palme d'Or winning Triangle of Sadness, will turn some heads, although maybe in disgust. Projectile vomit is a way to grab attention. The highly-stylized 'liquid gold' look of it, which I am sure is intentional, is perhaps...
Cannes 2022 Review: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, Delicious Chaos
Ruben Östlund's new comedy/drama stars Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean.
Sundance 2022 Review: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD Draws Thoroughly Modern Julie
Renate Reinsve stars in the new film by director Joachim Trier.
Review: KNOCKING, The Desperate Cry of Not Being Heard
Swedish director Frida Kempff says she developed her career in the documentary genre because she was interested in social issues. She decided to make her fiction debut with Knocking, based on the homonymous novel by her compatriot Johan Theorin, because...
Now Streaming: THE HUNT FOR A KILLER, Police and Bureaucrats
Anders Beckman and Lotten Roos star in the gripping true-crime series from Sweden, now streaming on SundanceNow.
Review: SABAYA, Neverending Nervy Rescues
Directed by Hogir Hirori, the gripping documentary peers into the real-life rescues of young women from sexual slavery.
Exclusive: THE HUNT FOR A KILLER Trailer Premiere, Sweden Gets Chilly
In Sweden, a cold case gets positively frozen by police bureaucracy, as showcased in the first US trailer for The Hunt for a Killer. You can watch the premiere of the very intriguing trailer below. Inspired by real-life police investigations,...
Review: UNDERGODS Casts a Captivating Spell
Kate Dickie, Ned Dennehy, Geza Rohrig, Burn Gorman and Tanya Reynolds star in director Chino Moya's fantasy thriller.
Review: THE UNTHINKABLE Slowly Unleashes Family Hell From Sweden
Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni and Jesper Barkselius star in a sci-fi action mystery from Sweden that builds to a wild crescendo, directed by filmmaking collective Crazy Pictures.
Review: ABOUT ENDLESSNESS, Asking Deeper Questions, Daring to Hope
Roy Andersson wrote and directed. Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms and Marie Burman star.
Sweden's Great THE UNTHINKABLE Finally Coming to U.S. Theaters
Somehow, someway, the great and fear-inspiring The Unthinkable is finally coming to U.S. theaters and On Demand on May 7, courtesy of Magnet Releasing. A new trailer has been released to celebrate the occasion, which you can watch below. The...
Review: BREAKING SURFACE, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
Moa Gammel and Madeleine Martin star as sisters who must fight for survival in director Joachim Hedén's tense thriller.
Review: AND THEN WE DANCED, Gotta Move to Survive
Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili and Ana Javakishvili star in the drama from Georgia, directed by Levan Akin.
Modern Georgian Drama AND THEN WE DANCED Heads to VOD
As a die-hard genre film fan who is also an unabashed couch potato, I am incredibly uninformed about the art of dance. (And, truthfully, pretty lazy.) Still, Levan Akin's drama And Then We Danced strikes a match in the kindling...
Review: SEA FEVER, Creature Feature Gone Wild
Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen, and Dougray Scott star in writer/director Neasa Hardiman's sci-fi horror drama.
INTRIGO: DEAR AGNES Trailer Dives Into Marital Malice and Murder
Gemma Chan, Carla Juri, and Jamie Sives star in the mystery thriller, directed by Daniel Alfredson.
Brooklyn Horror 2019 Review: SEA FEVER, Familiar Setting, Familiar Genre, Distinct Atmosphere
Hermione Corfield stars as a marine biologist in director Neasa Hardiman's feature debut.
Rotterdam 2019 Review: KOKO-DI KOKO-DA, Sophomore La-Di-Da
Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm jumped into the limelight of the international arthouse circuit with both feet, sweeping audiences and awards with his feature debut The Giant. It was a touching dramedy, absolved of sentimentality, about an autistic boy separated from...
Fantastic Fest 2018 Review: THE UNTHINKABLE, Audacious, Gripping and Shamelessly Sentimental
A low-budget wonder from the filmmaking collective Crazy Pictures.
