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Harrison Ford returns for a final crack of the whip, and Spike Jonze’s classic meta comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep

People often contend with their midlife crisis in drastically different ways, some of which aren't considered to be rational or socially acceptable by

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An absurdist chuckle-fest. Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie comedy from Denmark titled Wild Men, which is finally

Likeable Danish comedy about a midlife crisis

A suburban man leaves his family and heads to the mountains, where he meets a criminal on the run…

There are films that, after seeing the trailer, I very much expect to love. But when the actual movie is disappointing, I find writing the review makes me just a little bit sad. Unfortunately, Wild Men is one of those movies. Billed as a comedy-thriller, it doesn’t quite make the grade on either front, it's not gripping enough as a policier and the jokes often fall flat. 

Film review: Thomas Daneskov’s amusing Danish comedy caper accentuates the ridiculous

Influences from Fargo and Deliverance feed into Wild Men, a tale of male midlife crisis, off-grid living and channelling the power of the ancestors. Danish director Thomas Daneskov tells us why we shouldn’t expect mountains to make us feel better.