WAZ (aka WΔZ, aka w Delta z, aka The Killing Gene) first published by Film4 Summary: Tom Shankland’s feature debut is a bleak and bloody noir where New York’s darkest streets are trodden by a haunted detective and a tormented killer. Review: “There are shades of fuckin’ grey.” So declares grizzled detective Eddie Argo (Stellan Skarsgård) in…
First published in S&S Feb 2012 Synopsis: Sweden, 2006. Discredited in court by industrialist Wennerström, middle-aged journalist Mikael Blomkvist asks sometime lover Erika to replace him as publisher of Millennium magazine. Declared clean by troubled 23-year-old hacker Lisbeth Salander in a report secretly commissioned by Henrik Vanger (long-retired CEO of Sweden’s most powerful family business),…