“‘Riders Of Justice’: Mads Mikkelsen & A Great Ensemble Lend Emotional Depth To This Revenge Thriller”

Copenhagen’s gone Mads, and the only person who can save it is…well, Mads. Continue reading →

“Have ‘Another Round’ of Merriment, Melancholy and Mads Mikkelsen”

It’s a Mads, Mads, Mads, Mads world. Continue reading →

Review: The Commune, 2017, dir. Thomas Vinterberg

I wish I had enjoyed Thomas Vinterberg’s new film, The Commune, more than I did, but hey, good news: I still enjoyed it quite a lot. It’s good! Of course it is. It’s a Vinterberg film. It’s just, perhaps, a bit more gentle than a movie about group living and marital infidelity should be, and perhaps … Continue reading →

Review: Far From the Madding Crowd, 2015, dir. Thomas Vinterberg

“Try not to judge Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd as a product of Dogme. For one thing, that Dutch-born filmmaking movement (which Vinterberg co-founded with career bad-boy Lars von Trier in 1995) disbanded 10 years ago. For another, Vinterberg and von Trier built Dogme around strict rules, and we … Continue reading →