After a botched stint in the Hollywood big leagues with The Dark Tower, Danish director Nikolaj Arcel is back on home turf with The Promised Land, a sturdy, stately period drama far more in line with his opulent breakthrough hit A Royal Affair. Putting stalwart Mads Mikkelsen to work as a complicated leading […]
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The Promised Land & The Zone of Interest (Montclair Film Festival 2023)(Review(s)
Anders Thomas Jensen (The Green Butchers & Riders of Justice)
We’ve had our mid-season mini-break and we return with one for all your Mads Mikkelsen superfans. On this episode, I was joined by Ariel (Ride the Omnibus) & Graham (Pop Screen) to discuss the Scandinavian absurdist, Anders Thomas Jensen. Now if that name isn’t immediately familiar, worry not, all you […]
Cinema Eclectica 98 – Skeletor’s Leaning Tower of Rocks
Cinema Eclectica 98 – Skeletor's Leaning Tower of Rocks
Cinema Eclectica Episode 97 – A Very Special Star Wars Christmas
Christmas is a-coming, and here we are with our annual special episode! We take this opportunity to look a selection of films set around the 25th December (or thereabouts), but with a slightly skewed take on the festive season including “Blast of Silence”, “Krampus”, “Three Wishes for Cinderella” and “Santa’s […]
Cinema Eclectica 81 – It’s a Bus of Love, All Right?
Cinema Eclectica 81 – It's a Bus of Love, All Right?
Men & Chicken (2016) Alienating and repugnant but ever so funny with it (Review)
Scandinavian comedies are perhaps some of the strangest films you’ll ever see, but also magnetic in their charm and quick wit. Whether that would be Stellan Skarsgård as a snow-plough driver going on a killing spree, or a 100-year-old explosive expert escaping from a retirement home for his own adventures […]