Død Snø 2 (Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead)

The Nazis have risen from the dead, killed your friends, taken your girl, taken your arm, and left you blamed for their crimes.  To make matter worse, the local doctors have sewn a zombie arm onto your stump, and it keeps killing people.

Who can you turn to when the Nazis advance on town?  Your Allies, of course - an American Zombie Squad and your own horde of undead Soviet soldiers.  It's time to kick some Nazi zombie ass.

Død Snø 2 (Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead)
2014, 100 minutes, directed by Tommy Wirkola

They filmed the Norwegian-language scenes twice, so the North American release will be in English.  Fantastic Fest showed the subtitled international release.

Fuck Up

Ignore the title; I think there are maybe two swear words in the entire film.  Instead it's another good-crook-gets-in-trouble story, perhaps the third I've seen this week (Break Out, Plan C).  Jack, Robin, Glenn, Rasmussin - four longtime friends - get in over their heads when a drug smuggling job goes awry, leaving Jack and Glenn in trouble with the local mafia.  Jack, also in the midst of family drama, is fully aware of his faults and spends most of the film trying to make things right, to the best of his ability.

It's a tight crew - the entire cast and crew have a show together - and the interactions work.  This is a very enjoyable film.

Fuck Up
2012, 95 minutes, directed by Øystein Karlsen

$2M budget per the director

You Said What?

Films about making films can be total shit.  But in Norway they work.  Glenn, recently single after he catches his girlfriend cheating on him, is talked into staging a fake film audition in order to meet women.  But when he meets one he likes and tells her she has the part - well now he has to actually make the film...

You Said What?
2011, 107 minutes, directed by Patrik Syversen and Nini Bull Robsahm