The Girl with the Needle, 2024. Directed by Magnus von Horn. Starring Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, Ava Knox Martin, Ari Alexander, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Agnieszka Przyborowska-Mitrosz, Magnus von Horn, and Benedikte Hansen. SYNOPSIS: Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an […]
Movie Review – Becoming Astrid (2018)
Becoming Astrid, 2018. Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen. Starring Alba August, Trine Dyrholm, Maria Bonnevie, Björn Gustafson, Magnus Krepper, Henrik Rafaelsen, and Maria Fahl Vikander. SYNOPSIS: Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children’s books and creator of Pippi Longstocking. Sometimes the best way to celebrate an artist is to show […]
DVD Review – The Spider (2000)
The Spider (Edderkoppen), 2000. Directed by Ole Christian Madsen. Starring Jakob Cedergren, Stina Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen, Trine Dyrholm and Nikolaj Lie Kaas. SYNOPSIS: Copenhagen 1949. A young and idealistic journalist attempts to uncover the source of a shadowy black market operation working its way around the city. The Spider (Edderkoppen) is another noir influenced […]
