Tom Jolliffe looks back at 15 recent films which you might have missed… The last few years seems to have bought an upturn in interesting and engaging cinema. Even as conventional blockbuster fare, which can feel interchangeable, rules the roost, indie and world cinema is beginning to find a place and more acknowledgement. At the […]
Anti-Revenge Cinema
Tom Jolliffe on when vengeance on screen is shown as futile… It’s a dish best served cold. Cinema has long held a fascination with revenge. As a sub-genre, the revenge picture still carries plenty of market appeal. Many actors over the decades, particularly cinematic tough guys, have made careers in dishing out vengeance. For the […]
The Art of Giving Film Recommendations
Tom Jolliffe on the art of giving film recommendations… You’ve got to see The Matrix! You have to! It’s 1999, and there’s a distinct transition between the recommender of The Matrix as being ahead of the curve, to a couple of months down the line when such a recommendation is lost in a cacophony of […]
Free Guy producers set to remake Mads Mikkelsen’s Danish action-comedy Riders of Justice
Never shy in manoeuvring into the slipstream of success, Hollywood are quick to snap up the remake rights to an international hit, and that’s exactly what Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps production company and Lionsgate have done with Mads Mikkelsen’s Danish action-comedy Riders of Justice. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive report, Lionsgate has picked up […]
Mad for Mads: Why Mads Mikkelsen is one of the best in the business
Tom Jolliffe runs through the career of Mads Mikkelsen, jammed full of mesmerising performances… Denmark is famous for many things. Two of which are personal favourites of mine…Bacon, and Mads Mikkelsen. Before we start a Bacon war with Canadian readers here, or indeed my fellow Brits, I do jest. Well, not entirely. Mads Mikkelsen really […]
Movie Review – Riders of Justice (2020)
Riders of Justice, 2020. Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Morten Suurballe, Jesper Ole Feit Andersen, Jacob Ulrik Lohmann, Rikke Louise Andersson, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Henrik Noël Olesen, and Anne Birgitte Lind. SYNOPSIS: Markus, a deployed […]
Mads Mikkelsen is out for revenge in Riders of Justice trailer
A poster and trailer have been released for Anders Thomas Jensen’s black-comedy drama Riders of Justice which stars Mads Mikkelsen as a man who is out for revenge for the death of his wife and finds himself going up against an outlaw motorcycle club; take a look here… RIDERS OF JUSTICE follows recently-deployed Markus, who […]
