Hasitha Fernando with five modern Viking movies to watch if you enjoyed The Northman… Robert Eggers’ The Northman has renewed interest in everything Norse related. So, if you are in for some berserker style entertainment here are five modern Viking movies to sink your teeth into, literally. Onward towards Valhalla! Valhalla Rising (2009) Directed by […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Northman (2022)
The Northman, 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe. SYNOPSIS: Robert Eggers’ latest tour de force, The Northman, arrives on 4K Ultra HD disc not long after its theatrical run. The film looks amazing in 4K, as you might imagine, and Universal […]
Northman the Barbarian: How Conan Courses Through The Northman
Tom Jolliffe looks at the similarities between The Northman and Conan the Barbarian. Spoilers follow… After success and masses of acclaim for his small scale masterworks The Witch and The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers went large scale in his third outing. The Northman is a big budget Viking revenge epic. In every way, it’s the […]
Movie Review – The Northman (2022)
The Northman, 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Claes Bang, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Gustav Lindh, and Björk. SYNOPSIS: A young Viking prince embarks on an epic quest to avenge his father’s death. Robert Eggers broke into the Hollywood scene in 2015 with his period horror flick The Witch. […]
Movie Review – The Northman (2022)
The Northman, 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Olwen Fouéré, Eldar Skar, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassmann, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Oscar Novak, Jack Walsh, Björk, Ian Whyte, Katie Pattinson, Andrea O’Neill, Rebecca Ineson, Kate Dickie, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, […]
The Box Office Problem: The Desertion of the Cinephiles
Tom Jolliffe looks at the disappointing box office returns for The Northman and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and the possible implications for cinema… The box office has been improving of late. We’re getting back to a stage of careful optimism and growth closer to the kind of numbers which films were pulling in […]
Sonic collects more rings, Fantastic Beasts slumps, and The Northman makes a mark at the box office
It was just like the good old days at the box-office this weekend, with three wide releases competing with blockbuster holdovers for everyone’s pandemic pound-note (or in this case dollar), and while nobody saw Universal’s animated comedy The Bad Guys making off with so much swag atop the chart, there was a crushing inevitability about […]
The Northman red band trailer promises blood, brutality, and naked volcano fights
If you know anything about Robert Eggers’ new film, The Northman, you know it plans to offer up brutal Viking drama. The new epic from the director behind The Witch and The Lighthouse has already won over critics and audiences, but the latest trailer will likely bring in those bloodthirsty horror hounds. In the official […]
Why 2022 might just peak on April 22nd
Tom Jolliffe looks at two highly anticipated and unique films due to hit cinemas on April 22nd, The Northman and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent… April has perennially been something of a slow month in film release terms. In more recent times, given the sheer volume of blockbuster tent-poles, (particularly those under the Marvel […]
The Northman unleashes an epic new trailer
While Robert Eggers’ The Northman opens here in the UK this Friday, our friends across the Pond have to wait another week for the Viking epic, but we do have a new trailer from Focus Features to help ease the wait; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Why 2022 might just peak on April 22nd […]
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