It is not every film set on the wooded outskirts of present-day Oakland, Maine that opens somewhere in the Scandinavia of 912 AD, yet Harley Wallen’s Beneath Us All, scripted by Brett Miller, finds obscure connections between these different places and times. After the bloody murder of a child, Vikings hunt down, injure and encase…
First published by EyeforFilm Many films can boast moments of intensity, but there are very few that maintain their intensity from beginning to end. Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest, Valhalla Rising, is a Viking apocalypse that begins in the misty Scottish highlands before drifting through yet more mist to the end of the world – yet…
Hammer of the Gods first published by Grolsch FilmWorks It is 870 AD. The Viking king Bagsecg (James Cosmo) has summoned his youngest son Steinar (Charlie Brewley) to the shores of England to help fight against the strengthening Saxon armies. Steinar finds a gravely battle-wounded Bagsecg lying on his deathbed, and looking for a worthy…