Tag Archives: norway

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Posted on March 17, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Joachim Trier Writers: Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt

Posted in Comedy, Drama, Foreign, Romance | Tagged 2021, affair, anders Danielsen lie, andrea berentsen ottmar, birthday, cancer, comedy, comic book, drama, eskil vogt, foreign, hans olav brenner, herbert nordrum, joachim trier, kasper tuxen, love, maria grazie di meo, norway, ola flottum, olivier buggy coutte, oslo, party, relationship, renate reinsve, romance, romantic comedy, the worst person in the world, thomas robsahm | Leave a comment

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Christopher McQuarrie Writer: Christopher McQuarrie (Based on the television series created by Bruce Geller) Great! Best of the series and one of the best action movies of recent years.

Posted in Action, Adventure, Thriller | Tagged 2018, action, adaptation, adventure, agent, alex baldwin, angela bassett, berlin, bomb, bruce geller, christopher mcquarrie, cia, eddie hamilton, fallout, france, frederick schmidt, germany, helicopter, henry cavill, IMF, j.j. abrams, lorne balfe, mask, michelle monaghan, mission, mission: impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, motorcycle, norway, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapon, nuke, paris, plutonium, rebecca ferguson, rob hardy, sean harris, sequel, simon pegg, skydive, spy, television, thriller, tom cruise, tv, vanessa kirby, ving rhames, wes bentley, wolf blitzer | Leave a comment

The Weight of Water (2002)

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Kathryn Bigelow Writers: Alice Arlen and Christopher Kyle (Based on the novel by Anita Shreve) Bigelow? More like Bigel-NO! A real stinker.

Posted in Crime, Drama, Mystery | Tagged 2000, 2002, a. kitman ho, adaptation, alice arlen, anita shreve, boat, catherine mccormack, christopher kyle, ciaran hinds, crime, drama, elizabeth hurley, homicide, immigrant, island, janet yang, josh lucas, kathryn bigelow, murder, new england, norway, norwegian, photographer, poet, research, sail boat, sarah polley, sean penn, sigurjon sighvatsson, the weight of water, thriller | Leave a comment

Until the Light Takes Us (2009)

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Aaron Aites & Audrey Ewell

Posted in Documentary, Musical | Tagged 2009, aaron aites, arson, art, artist, audrey ewell, band music, black metal, burzum, darkthrone, documentary, fire, mayhem'immortal, metal, murder, music, musician, norway, norwegian, subculture, suicide, until the light takes us | Leave a comment

Headhunters (2012)

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Morten Tyldum Writers: Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg (Based on a novel by Jo Nesbo) http://everyonequestion.com/headhunters-review Headhunters is an entertaining enough foreign import that I wish had excited me more than it ending up doing. Don’t get me wrong … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Drama, Foreign, Thriller, Uncategorized | Tagged 2012, aksel hennie, art house, art thief, crime, drama, foreign, headhunter, headhunters, hodejegerne, morten tyldum, nikolaj coster-walday, norway, norweigian, thief, thriller, trophy wife | Leave a comment

Trollhunter (2010)

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Andre Ovredal Writers: Andre Ovredal Been meaning to check this out for a while. Low budget Norwegian found footage movie about college kids following a troll hunter as he hunts…trolls. So in the movie trolls are real and while … Continue reading →

Posted in Drama, Fantasy, Foreign, Horror | Tagged 2010, andre ovredal, bear, drama, fantasy, foreign, found footage, Glenn Erland Tosterud, horror, hunt, hunter, Johanna Mørck, Knut Nærum, norway, Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, students, Tomas Alf Larsen, troll, Trollhunter, Trolljegeren, trolls | Leave a comment