Fresh from its premiere at London Film Festival Nordic Watchlist reviews Pillion, starring Alexander Skarsgård and directed by Harry Lighton. Continue reading Pillion Review: A Raw Love Story That Redefines Queer Narratives
Winner of the 2021 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel, Mikael Niemi’s To Cook a Bear (Koka Björn) has been adapted into a stunning six-part series for Disney+. It’s a fascinating amalgamation of the classic detective story, historical drama, … Continue reading To Cook A Bear Disney+ Series Review: Must-Watch Dark Thriller
Gustaf Skarsgård on mud make up, life lessons and the perils of polarism as he discusses his role in Disney+ series To Cook A Bear with Nordic Watchlist Continue reading Gustaf Skarsgård on mud make up, life lessons and the perils of polarism in his new series To Cook A Bear
Nordic Watchlist reviews Netflix’s The New Force. This six-part series follows Carin, Siv and Ingrid as Sweden’s first female police officers who have to navigate the sexual politics of their time, as well as a dangerous new case. Continue reading The New Force – Netflix’s retro new crime drama
Walter Presents has been spoiling Scandinavian TV lovers this summer, and this continues with their latest release, Omerta 6/12. You can forget the cosy jumpers and hygge decor, however, as this political thriller aims to showcase something altogether more explosive. Continue reading Omerta 6/12 – New Finnish political thriller comes to Walter Presents
UK fans of Dan, Flemming and Marianne have had to wait just four weeks between series two and season three of The Sommerdahl Murders airing via Walter Presents. Since season two left us with a double personal tragedy for Dan, … Continue reading The Sommerdahl Murders Season 3: More Picturesque Crime from Walter Presents
The Last Journey opens with a quiet simplicity: stark title cards. The Son. The Father. They are followed by the sterile whiteness of a hospital waiting room. An MRI machine hums ominously as Lars, the father, lies still, his son … Continue reading Reviving Memories: A Father-Son Road Trip in ‘The Last Journey’
Viaplay has a decidedly gritty new offering coming to the platform. Mafia, a six-part drama thriller, centres around a community of smugglers and dealers from the former Yugoslavia, all of whom are using their new home in Stockholm to fund … Continue reading Mafia – Viaplay’s tense new crime thriller
The ultimate comfort watch is back on Walter Presents. Sure, there’s death involved, but there’s something so cosy and charming about The Sommerdahl Murders. It’s as if Midsummer Murders was set in Denmark – there’s an unusually high body count … Continue reading The Sommerdahl Murders Season 2 Review: The Cosy Crime Drama Returns
Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks is a poignant meditation on grief, love and the quiet devastation of loss. Set against the backdrop of Iceland’s ethereal landscapes, the film follows Una (Elín Hall), a young art student grappling … Continue reading Exploring Grief in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks
Have you ever had something happen to you that has made you reassess the rest of your life? A moment so striking in its capacity for change that you realise you have been living a life that you’re not entirely … Continue reading Chaos – All you need to know about Viaplay’s brilliant new romantic drama series
When we said last month that you had to cancel all of your plans for The Glass Dome, we didn’t anticipate having to tell you to do the same this month. But Ingeborg Topsøe’s Secrets We Keep (Reservatet) really is worth staying in for. The endlessly binge-able six-part series comes to Netflix on May 15. Continue reading Secrets We Keep – Review of Thrilling Nordic Netflix Crime Drama
The Nordic Watchlist team watch A New Kind of Wilderness and share a their review of the documentary that his UK cinemas this month. Continue reading A New Kind of Wilderness – Documentary Review
Nordic Watchlist reviews new Norwegian series The Fortress as it arrives onto Amazon Prime in the UK. Continue reading The Fortress: A Review of the Riveting Pandemic-Inspired Series
Clear your diary; cancel your plans. There’s a new six part Nordic crime drama for you to binge watch on Netflix – The Glass Dome! Continue reading Netflix’s The Glass Dome Review – A Tense New Crime Thriller
Nordic Watchlist review: The Ugly Stepsister offers a dark, fresh twist on the Cinderella tale, told from the stepsister’s view. Continue reading The Ugly Stepsister Review: A Dark Twist on Cinderella
In times of tragedy, it is often said that having a community around you – be it family members, loved ones, friends or neighbours – is one of the most important things. Having a hub of people around you who … Continue reading The Street Where I Live – Viaplay’s New Six Part Series
If you’ve read any of Antti Tuomainen’s books, you’ll quickly get a sense of his style. It’s almost like the Coen Brothers wrote Finnish crime novels. There’s a quirky sense of humour that permeates his work, inevitably some violence along … Continue reading Little Siberia – Netflix Film Review
Frida Kempff’s breathtaking biopic of Swedish swimming sensation, Sally Bauer, opens with failure. Bauer (Josefin Neldén) is gasping for air; we can almost feel the ache in her arms as she struggles to keep her head above the water. She … Continue reading The Swedish Torpedo – Film Review from Glasgow Film Festival
Usually, when a film makes you want to visit the location in which it was shot, it implies sunny Mediterranean coastlines or dramatic, isolated scenery. But a decaying, pulsating hotel that won’t let you leave? Surely, that’s the stuff of … Continue reading Mr. K – Film Review from Glasgow Film Festival 2025
The Glasgow Film Festival enjoys its twenty-first birthday this year, opening on February 26 and running until March 9. The festival continues to grow, annually, with audience numbers on the rise and a host of international stars walking the red … Continue reading 5 Nordic Films to Watch at Glasgow Film Festival 2025
A small, isolated town seemingly fuelled by gossip and the church. A chilly welcome to “mainlanders”. School bullying. Ableist discrimination. A persistent fear of the occult. LARPing. A detective with a series case of burnout. Walter Presents: Evilside is a … Continue reading Evilside Review – New Walter Presents Series
Mats Steen died when he was just 25 years old. He was born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a degenerative disease that ultimately robbed him of his life. A keen gamer, his story is told through talking heads and World of … Continue reading The Remarkable Life of Ibelin – Film Review
Whether you’ve seen F.W. Murnau’s silent masterpiece Nosferatu or not, the image of Count Orlok emerging from below the deck of the Demeter is one of the most iconic in cinema history. And whilst we have Robert Eggers take on … Continue reading The Last Voyage of the Demeter – Film Review
“You’ve done the right thing,” Dagmar Overbye reassures the desperate mothers who hand over their newborns to her for a not insignificant fee. She places a hand on their shoulder, smiles warmly and reassures them that their child will be … Continue reading The Girl With The Needle – Film Review
Police procedurals are a staple of Scandinavian television series. There’s usually a detective with a terrible personal life keeping all kinds of anti-social hours, driven to the brink by a case they cannot solve. And whilst that is the case … Continue reading The Breakthrough Review – New Netflix TV Series
The Stockholm Bloodbath is considered something of a turning point in Scandinavian history. Over the course of three days, in November 1520, more than one hundred executions took place. After battling to become king of Sweden and Denmark, Kristian II … Continue reading Stockholm Bloodbath – Film Review
“There’s madness in its words; There’s sickness in its breath; Beware the Draugr, for its very touch is death.” So goes a snippet of a rhyme that one of the beleaguered townsfolk utters in his sleep during Thordur Palsson’s The … Continue reading The Damned – Film Review
The immigration experience is a subject that often dominates Scandinavian television and films. We are often shown poverty and violence; gang violence and police brutality. Rarely are we shown colour, love, food and family. Kaveh Tehrani’s Listen Up! (Hør her’a!) … Continue reading Listen Up! (Hør her’a!) – Film Review
At this time of year, when you’re faced with sideways rain, gale force winds and seemingly endless darkness, a trip to somewhere sunny sounds like the perfect antidote. Perhaps you’ve even considered the spending time amongst the azure seas, golden … Continue reading La Palma on Netflix: Disaster Meets Family Drama
