Bumper week at biografen

Will Smith, Juliane Moore, Johnny Depp and a Deppless Tim Burton all have films out

Welcome to the month of March in which there is a tonne of films vying for your pocket money at the theatres. I’ll do my best to direct your spending – this week alone there are ten films coming out on general release. 

First up is Focus, a conman meets congirl story starring box office magnet Will Smith and Wolf Of Wall Street’s Margot Robbie – the early word is not favourable. 

Still Alice earned its lead Julianne Moore an Oscar recently as a linguistics professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, while Mortdecai is a comedy starring Jonny Depp as a debonair art dealer who hopes to recover lost Nazi gold. It’s confidently being dubbed ‘the worst film of 2015’. 

The master of theme park macabre, Tim Burton, returns to our big screens this week with Big Eyes – a film that dramatises the legal difficulties surrounding the work of ’50s painter Margaret Keane whose husband for many years was believed to be the artist behind her immensely popular painting. While Ewan Mcgregor also makes a return with a tepidly received prison drama-cum-heist movie, Son Of A Gun

Finally, this week boasts two sci-fi films that concern themselves with the future of robotics and artificial intelligence: writer Alex Garland (The Beach) makes his directorial debut with Ex-Machina, a drama that blurs the distinction between man and machine as a young programmer is invited to take the ultimate Turing test. If you were limited to one sci-fi this week, I’d go for Garland’s. Read this week’s review of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie to find out why.

Elsewhere, Cinemateket is running Ireland On Film – a short season of Irish cinema from the last decade. Films include Calvary (screening March 5 at 19:15), a tragicomedy in which Brendan Gleeson portrays a priest given one week to live before he’s murdered for sex crimes he never committed, and Good Vibrations (screening March 7, 19:15) which concerns a man who opened a record store in 1970s Belfast during ‘the Troubles’ and became a punk legend. See dfi.dk/Filmhuset for the full listings. 




  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.


  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.