The recently released Sugar, starring Colin Farrell, was a modern rethinking of the noir genre with references to old cinema – and audiences fell in love with it. However, in the sixth episode, fans were treated to such a twist that it seemed that the showrunner had simply left at that moment, leaving ChatGPT to finish writing the plot.
If that unexpected twist ruined the magic of Sugar's noir for you, these five TV shows will restore your faith in the genre.
1. Perry Mason, 2020-2023
1930, Los Angeles. Private detective Perry Mason suffers from post-traumatic disorder and is going through a difficult divorce, so he often tries to ground himself with a bottle of alcohol.
One day, a lawyer comes to Mason with a bigger case – unknown persons have killed the baby of a local businessman. Much to his friend's surprise, Mason agrees to investigate. He soon realizes that he has become...
If that unexpected twist ruined the magic of Sugar's noir for you, these five TV shows will restore your faith in the genre.
1. Perry Mason, 2020-2023
1930, Los Angeles. Private detective Perry Mason suffers from post-traumatic disorder and is going through a difficult divorce, so he often tries to ground himself with a bottle of alcohol.
One day, a lawyer comes to Mason with a bigger case – unknown persons have killed the baby of a local businessman. Much to his friend's surprise, Mason agrees to investigate. He soon realizes that he has become...
- 5/15/2024
- by zoe-wallace@startefacts.com (Zoe Wallace)
- STartefacts.com
It’s kept deliberately vague where precisely Italian music-video director Francesco Carrozzini has set his feature debut, an adaption of the Jo Nesbø bestseller novel “Midnight Sun,” which closed a prestige-laden Venice Film Festival on an improbable note. One leans toward, maybe, Norway? But it could be Iceland or Greenland or any one of those far-flung, fjordy locales that usually turn out to belong to Denmark. It’s not like the language cues help: The dialogue is in English and the grand, windswept coastal landscapes are carefully scrubbed of signage that might, by so much as a single ‘ø,’ betray their provenance.
The actors’ nationalities are less use still. Headlined by Italy’s Alessandro Borghi (“The Eight Mountains”), the rest of the cast is stacked with UK talent, though we do know for sure, by the way the sun never sets and the mood is set firmly to “Nordic despair,...
The actors’ nationalities are less use still. Headlined by Italy’s Alessandro Borghi (“The Eight Mountains”), the rest of the cast is stacked with UK talent, though we do know for sure, by the way the sun never sets and the mood is set firmly to “Nordic despair,...
- 9/12/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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The Killing, the Danish TV crime series that helped ignite the Nordic Noir genre, landed an array of international awards — including a BAFTA — and sparked a sharp rise in demand for Faroese sweaters as worn by Sofie Grabol’s Detective Sarah Lund, has been given an Arabic-language remake.
Titled Monataf Khater, the new adaptation is set to air on Shahid VIP, the subscription-based service of streaming platform Shahid of Saudi-owned Middle East broadcast giant Mbc, with the action shifting from gloomy Copenhagen to sunny Cairo in Egypt, where the series was also filmed. Charisma Pictures, the scripted division of Charisma Group, produced the project, having acquired the rights from Dr Sales. The series was written by Mohamed El Masry and directed by Sadeer Al Massoud (Qaid Majhol). Hossam Habib served as director of photography.
Leading the cast are Bassel Khayat (Al Arrab, Tango...
The Killing, the Danish TV crime series that helped ignite the Nordic Noir genre, landed an array of international awards — including a BAFTA — and sparked a sharp rise in demand for Faroese sweaters as worn by Sofie Grabol’s Detective Sarah Lund, has been given an Arabic-language remake.
Titled Monataf Khater, the new adaptation is set to air on Shahid VIP, the subscription-based service of streaming platform Shahid of Saudi-owned Middle East broadcast giant Mbc, with the action shifting from gloomy Copenhagen to sunny Cairo in Egypt, where the series was also filmed. Charisma Pictures, the scripted division of Charisma Group, produced the project, having acquired the rights from Dr Sales. The series was written by Mohamed El Masry and directed by Sadeer Al Massoud (Qaid Majhol). Hossam Habib served as director of photography.
Leading the cast are Bassel Khayat (Al Arrab, Tango...
- 7/15/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All four seasons of the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish stream during ‘Summer Of Suspense’.
Streaming service Topic will screen Bafta international series winner The Killing (Forbrydelsen) this summer in the Nordic Noir TV classic’s first ever airing in North America.
All four seasons of the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish show will stream in Topic’s ‘Summer Of Suspense’ series of crime thrillers and mysteries.
The Killing will debut on August 12, followed by a successive season each week. Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, and Lars Mikkelsen star in the procedural about detective Sarah Lund who investigates cases with political and personal consequences. Søren Sveistrup created the series.
Streaming service Topic will screen Bafta international series winner The Killing (Forbrydelsen) this summer in the Nordic Noir TV classic’s first ever airing in North America.
All four seasons of the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish show will stream in Topic’s ‘Summer Of Suspense’ series of crime thrillers and mysteries.
The Killing will debut on August 12, followed by a successive season each week. Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, and Lars Mikkelsen star in the procedural about detective Sarah Lund who investigates cases with political and personal consequences. Søren Sveistrup created the series.
- 5/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The 2010s was the decade that foreign-language television broke through the global ceiling and got Hollywood to notice the quality of content coming from all corners of the world. While Danish drama The Killing (Forbrydelsen) and French thrillers Braquo and Spiral began inching the door open in the “aughties,” hyper local titles and the booming streaming market means that Netflix subscribers are just as likely to binge Spanish drama La Casa De Papel (Money Heist) or German supernatural thriller Dark as they are the new season of The Crown.
Netflix’s VP International Originals Kelly Luegenbiehl recently told a London conference that “Hollywood is not the be-all and end-all of storytelling,” and “this is really just the beginning.” Georgia Brown, European content chief at Amazon, agreed that “language is kind of irrelevant now.”
It’s not just the SVODs that are helping this boom; linear broadcasters around the world have...
Netflix’s VP International Originals Kelly Luegenbiehl recently told a London conference that “Hollywood is not the be-all and end-all of storytelling,” and “this is really just the beginning.” Georgia Brown, European content chief at Amazon, agreed that “language is kind of irrelevant now.”
It’s not just the SVODs that are helping this boom; linear broadcasters around the world have...
- 12/31/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Moviehouse Entertainment handling title at Efm.
Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl, most recognised for playing Sarah Lund in crime series The Killing, has boarded the cast of Adrian Mead’s UK thriller Tripwire.
Gråbøl will star alongside Martin Compston and Stephen Graham in the film, which Moviehouse Entertainment is presenting to buyers at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin this week.
Mark Vennis of Moviehouse is also producing the title with Clare Kerr of MeadKerr Films.
Set in Bosnia in 1994, Tripwire follows a small, closely knit squad of British soldiers out on a routine patrol. Lured into a booby-trapped farmyard...
Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl, most recognised for playing Sarah Lund in crime series The Killing, has boarded the cast of Adrian Mead’s UK thriller Tripwire.
Gråbøl will star alongside Martin Compston and Stephen Graham in the film, which Moviehouse Entertainment is presenting to buyers at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin this week.
Mark Vennis of Moviehouse is also producing the title with Clare Kerr of MeadKerr Films.
Set in Bosnia in 1994, Tripwire follows a small, closely knit squad of British soldiers out on a routine patrol. Lured into a booby-trapped farmyard...
- 2/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The Danish actor on her role in the director’s new serial killer movie, being mesmerised by Suranne Jones, and Christmas hygge-style
Danish actor Sofie Gråbøl became famous internationally playing police officer Sarah Lund in TV thriller The Killing. She also starred in the Arctic-set Sky series Fortitude. She made her film debut in 1986, her early films including 1988 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Pelle the Conqueror. She now appears as one of the victims of a serial killer played by Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built, the latest film from Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, whom she previously worked with on his 2006 comedy, The Boss of It All. She lives in Copenhagen with her two children.
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Danish actor Sofie Gråbøl became famous internationally playing police officer Sarah Lund in TV thriller The Killing. She also starred in the Arctic-set Sky series Fortitude. She made her film debut in 1986, her early films including 1988 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Pelle the Conqueror. She now appears as one of the victims of a serial killer played by Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built, the latest film from Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, whom she previously worked with on his 2006 comedy, The Boss of It All. She lives in Copenhagen with her two children.
So, The House That Jack Built…
What did you think?...
- 12/8/2018
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
When the U.K.’s Channel 4 aired French series “Les Revenants” in primetime in 2013 it was a watershed moment; a non-English language series playing in the primetime schedule of one of the U.K.’s big free-tv broadcasters. A horde of Scandi invaders also made their way onto international TV screens, as Sarah Lund’s knitwear in Dr’s “The Killing” became watercooler chat for the drama cognoscenti.
English-language markets that had shunned “foreign” production had opened to “international” drama. Starz has now bought a Norwegian drama and HBO will run an Italian-language series. The success of the latter’s “My Brilliant Friend” will establish if global fare can edge further into the mainstream, or will remain the preserve of the streamers and specialists.
“Over the last decade the international drama market has evolved from one dominated by sales of English, particularly U.S., finished, 13×1-hour series, to one where any show,...
English-language markets that had shunned “foreign” production had opened to “international” drama. Starz has now bought a Norwegian drama and HBO will run an Italian-language series. The success of the latter’s “My Brilliant Friend” will establish if global fare can edge further into the mainstream, or will remain the preserve of the streamers and specialists.
“Over the last decade the international drama market has evolved from one dominated by sales of English, particularly U.S., finished, 13×1-hour series, to one where any show,...
- 4/7/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Dec 29, 2017
Spoilers ahead in our review of Black Mirror season 4’s brilliantly nasty Nordic noir Crocodile, starring Andrea Riseborough…
This review contains spoilers.
See related The End Of The F***ing World: exclusive clip The End of The F***ing World: first clips arrive New on Netflix UK: what's added in January 2018?
4.3 Crocodile
Stay extremely quiet during an episode of Black Mirror and it’s sometimes possible to hear the exact moment that writer Charlie Brooker, hunched over his laptop, fingers frenziedly attacking the keys, throws back his head and shouts Ha!
The Ha! moment of relish doesn’t come when his brain arrives at a particularly horrible turn of events—a woman smothering a baby, say. It comes after that, when he lands upon an irresistible dollop of agonising irony to drop on top. A woman, say, who gives speeches about building a better tomorrow, smothering a...
Spoilers ahead in our review of Black Mirror season 4’s brilliantly nasty Nordic noir Crocodile, starring Andrea Riseborough…
This review contains spoilers.
See related The End Of The F***ing World: exclusive clip The End of The F***ing World: first clips arrive New on Netflix UK: what's added in January 2018?
4.3 Crocodile
Stay extremely quiet during an episode of Black Mirror and it’s sometimes possible to hear the exact moment that writer Charlie Brooker, hunched over his laptop, fingers frenziedly attacking the keys, throws back his head and shouts Ha!
The Ha! moment of relish doesn’t come when his brain arrives at a particularly horrible turn of events—a woman smothering a baby, say. It comes after that, when he lands upon an irresistible dollop of agonising irony to drop on top. A woman, say, who gives speeches about building a better tomorrow, smothering a...
- 12/21/2017
- Den of Geek
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