≡ Category: Comedy, Denmark, Drama, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For everyone who is tired of the same recycled plots and characters, have I got a movie for you.
In Adam’s Apples, neo-Nazi Adam Pedersen (Ulrich Thomsen) is sentenced to community service at a country church presided over by Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), a priest who views […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Denmark, Drama, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Year: 1996
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Pusher is a no budget effort from Denmark, up-and-comer Nicolas Winding Refn’s first film. Refn creates a minor miracle with what he had to work with: a tiny budget and one handheld camera. Yes, he also had good actors, like Kim Bodnia (Frank, the […]
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Country: Denmark
Genre: Drama
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here in the United States, we don’t get a whole lot of political thrillers, even if they’re tarted up with explosions, pseudo martial arts violence, and T&A (think Salt). And a political thriller which consists of nothing but strategy and dialog? Forget about it.
I am so […]
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Country: Denmark
Genre: Drama
Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In terms of plot summary, Brothers resembles the high concept Iraq themed war movies Hollywood has been churning out for some time now. Michael (Ulrich Thomsen), a Dudley-Do-Right kind of guy, is a professional soldier bound for Iraq. He goes missing in action. Michael’s brother Jannik […]
≡ Category: Denmark, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Satire | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Satire
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2003
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I really wanted to like The Green Butchers. I really did. The filmmaking is elegant. The camera moves, the framing, and the lighting are all classically beautiful. Mads Mikkelsen is wonderful as Sven, the socially maladroit wacko at the center of the story. The music […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Denmark, Movie Reviews By Country, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Lasse Spang Olsen
Year: 1999
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I have to admit, the prospect of sitting through In China They Eat Dogs, a Pulp Fiction knockoff from Denmark (not exactly famous for their action movie prowess), didn’t exactly fill me with joy, but to my surprise, it wasn’t half bad.
The premise couldn’t be more […]
