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Cop Secret [Leynilögga] **½ (2021, Auðunn Blöndal, Egill Einarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir) – Movie Review

The crazily quirky 2021 Icelandic gay action comedy film Cop Secret [Leynilögga] is directed by footballer Hannes Þór Halldórsson from his screenplay with Nína Pedersen and Sverrir Þór Sverrisson, based on a fake movie trailer […]

Mar, 23

Woman at War [Kona fer í stríð] **** (2018, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War, Iceland’s submission to the 91st Academy Awards (2018), cheered me up enormously. It is an expertly aimed feel-good movie, delightfully quirky and funny, definitely about something, many things […]

May, 08

Arctic ***½ (2018, Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir) – Movie Review

Mads Mikkelsen stars in co-writer/ director Joe Penna’s 2018 survival thriller Arctic as Overgård, an incredibly strong, brave and resourceful man who desperately tries to survive the Arctic after a plane crash. [Spoiler alert] His his long-awaited […]

Sep, 27

Where to Invade Next **** (2015, Michael Moore) – Movie Review

Tireless crusader against injustice Michael Moore sets off from America to ‘invade’ various countries to grab hold of some of their good ideas to take back to the States to make life better there. In […]

Jun, 07

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