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FAMILIES LIKE OURS – Review by Susan Granger

June 16, 2025June 18, 2025 Susan Granger Amaryllis August, calamitous climate change, danish films, Esben Smed, Families Like Ours, miniseries, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Thomas Vinterberg

Set in the not-too-distant future, Thomas Vinterberg’s seven-episode miniseries “Families Like Ours” chronicles what happens when calamitous climate change forces six million Danish citizens to flee slowly encroaching sea water. Writer Bo Hr. Hansen mergers personal, plausible dilemmas with issues caused by the global disaster,. The series focuses on storytelling and performance without using elaborate special effects and technology; which involves shooting on-location and using only natural sound for an authentic cinematic experience.

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RIDERS OF JUSTICE – Review by Liz Braun

May 27, 2021May 30, 2021 Liz Braun Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Riders of Justice

Everything about the writing in Riders of Justice is delightful, but the genius of what writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen is doing here is most evident in the creation of a trio of deeply damaged, somewhat deranged and entirely sweet-natured men, each of them ruthless in his capacity to hack into the lives of others, misuse spyware and gather information on enemies real or imagined.