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A Reindeer’s Journey – kids’ review! 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

11th November 2019 by Cassian Leave a Comment

I wanted to give this 9.9 but mum said it had to be out of five stars. The start is brilliant, the rocks in the snow are made to look like a reindeer’s head. I’ve actually seen reindeer in Finland. Last year I went to Lapland to meet the real Father Christmas and our hotel… A Reindeer’s Journey – kids’ review! Read More

Filed Under: Christmas, Film Reviews, Kids, Reviews By Kids Tagged With: finland, lapland, norway, reindeer

Director-producer Rita Osei on her journey to bring Bliss! to the big screen

14th June 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“A boy at the end of the Seville screening came up and said ‘I want to be a dad now. A real dad’.” Rita Osei is the director-producer of Bliss!, set in North East England and Norway. Bliss! follows Tasha, a 16 year old girl with a seemingly indifferent mother and a violent stepdad, who… Director-producer Rita Osei on her journey to bring Bliss! to the big screen Read More

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: bliss, diversity, film director, filmmaking, norway, rita osei, south shields, women directors, women in film

Bliss! 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th September 2018 by Sarah Cartland 1 Comment

Bliss! is an assured and well-judged feature debut from director Rita Osei – an uplifting family film but an unsentimental one, and a movie that young girls can call their own. Searching Norway for a blond man nicknamed The Viking was never going to be easy. But it shows how deep teenage Tash’s need for… Bliss! Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: coming of age, norway, scandinavia, south shields

The King’s Choice 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

24th January 2018 by Sarah Cartland 3 Comments

The actual German invasion is swift, though not entirely unexpected. A battleship sails into the Straits of Norway, the home forces attack, and a huge ship burns orange against an inky blue night sky. It’s an impressive initial volley, and also a heartbreaking last stand, as more German warships follow it into Norwegian waters. A… The King’s Choice Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Haakon VII, Invasion, nazis, norway, quisling, ww2

Dead Snow 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

16th January 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

For some reason he always attracted the clingy ones on Tinder

“If you have your intestines in your hands, what do you do then?” and this sadly un-rhetorical question, posed by a Menacing Local to the kids-in-the-isolated-cabin, haunted me until about two-thirds of the way through Norwegian Nazi zombie mash up Dead Snow when it was overtaken by this thought: “if you are hanging off a cliff holding onto a Nazi zombie’s… Dead Snow Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews Tagged With: nazi zombies, nazis, norway, norwegian horror, zombies

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