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AP Photos In Shirley Jackson’s classic short story “The Lottery,” the villagers of a small town randomly choose one of their own to stone to death for no ostensible purpose other than the cathartic thrill of the kill. A similarly macabre lottery recently was conducted by our neighbors in Wisconsin. Following the Trump administration’s controversial removal of the gray wolf from the federal endangered species list, just days before Donald Trump left office, 2,380 Wisconsin hunters chosen by lottery from 27,151 applicants “won” the privilege of buying licenses to kill 119 wolves ov...

From left: 'Tigers' director Ronnie Sandahl and actor Erik Enge Swedish soccer drama 'Tigers' wins Best Nordic Film and Best Actor honors for star Erik Enge at the 2021 Goteborg Film Festival. Danish Oscar contender 'Another Round' wins Audience Award. Tigers, a Swedish sports drama based on the true story of teenage soccer talent Martin Bengtsson, has won the top prize, the Dragon Award, for Best Nordic Film at the 2021 Göteborg Film Festival, Scandinavia's top cinema event.  Ronnie Sandahl —the screenwriter on Janus Metz's 2017 tennis biopic Borg vs McEnroe—won over the Göteborg ju...

Welcome to Utmark. The jury statement reads: “We are immersed in a time when we are being bombarded with content, so we looked for a unique story. This one was super-smart, super-intelligent and had complex characters – who seem normal and dysfunctional at the same time. There is no black and white in this show. The characters contain both good and evil. The series pilot tells the story but leaves you with so much unanswered that you want to watch the rest. It questions you as a viewer. What should you believe? You both love and hate each character. We believe them all, but they can’t a...

Kim Fupz Aakeson, the writer of Norwegian comedy-drama Velkommen til Utmark (Welcome to Utmark), speaks to DQ about the film origins of his quirky series and the open landscapes that make it a Nordic western. While HBO Nordic’s eight-part Norwegian comedy-drama Velkommen til Utmark (Welcome to Utmark) has its origins as a feature film, writer Kim Fupz Aakeson wasn’t initially convinced by the idea to turn his movie pitch into a series. “We had a short couple of pages; it was an idea for a feature film,” Aakeson tells DQ. “I’ve worked with [producer] Paradox in Norway on three fea...

Death to 2020, WandaVision, every Harry Potter film: what's streaming in Australia in January Luke Buckmaster Film, US/UK, 2020 – out now That old saying “comedy is tragedy plus time” makes the point that terrible things can become hilarious with a little bit of distance. Creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones (who also helmed Black Mirror) are hoping audiences don’t need much time to view the – for want of a better word – absurdities of 2020 in a humorous light, packing together a fast-paced recap of the year in the very witty and entertaining Death to 2020. T...