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Exclusive Interview: Director Joe Penna talks feature film debut Arctic

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Sean Wilson chats to YouTuber turned filmmaker Joe Penna about his gripping survival drama Arctic, starring Mads Mikkelsen… A man stalks his way across the icy tundra. We don’t know anything about him, save his commitment to scraping beneath the snow and bedrock with a a pickax. After a few minutes of close-up, hard-scrabble minutiae, […]

Movie Review – At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

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At Eternity’s Gate, 2018. Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric and Mads Mikkelsen. SYNOPSIS: Isolated in a yellow house in rural France, Vincent Van Gogh is prolific with his paintings, but sees his mental state gradually unravel. There’s a moment in At Eternity’s Gate, which may […]

New poster for Arctic featuring Mads Mikkelsen

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Signature Entertainment has unveiled a new poster for Arctic, the upcoming survival drama featuring Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal, Doctor Strange); check it out here… Mads Mikkelsen gives a tour de force performance as a pilot whose plane has crashed in a remote corner of the Arctic. Stranded in the wilderness he uses his ingenuity to survive. […]

Movie Review – Arctic (2019)

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Arctic, 2019. Written and Directed by Joe Penna. Starring Mads Mikkelsen and Maria Thelma Smáradóttir. SYNOPSIS: A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out […]

The director of Netflix’s Polar teases sequel possibilities

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Jonas Åkerlund, the director of Netflix’s original film Polar, has teased potential sequel possibilities should they get the green light. The latest original film to make its way to Netflix viewers around the world is Jonas Åkerlund’s Polar, an adaptation of a graphic novel from author Víctor Santos. The film stars Mads Mikkelsen as a retired hitman, who […]

Second Opinion – Polar (2019)

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Polar, 2019. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Richard Dreyfuss and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: The world’s top assassin, Duncan Vizla, is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm. Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with […]

Movie Review – Polar (2019)

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Polar, 2019 Directed by Jonas Akerlund. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Richard Dreyfuss and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: A talented hitman is nearing retirement and will receive an eight-million dollar pension on his fiftieth birthday. His employers send out a team of younger assassins to take him out before his big payday. Based on […]

Mads Mikkelsen is the world’s top assassin in Polar trailer

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Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming Dark Horse Comics adaptation Polar starring Hannibal and Doctor Strange villain Mads Mikkelsen. Playing the world’s retired top assassin The Black Kaiser, he is on the run from his former employers after he’s deemed a liability and marked for death. The film is directed by Jonas Åkerlund (Lords of Chaos) […]