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A maiden king? Dust and bones may reveal the true power of Viking women

While the allure of female warriors and maiden-kings is obvious, this view of power shown in pop culture doesn’t tell the whole story.

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Welcome to the Viking Issue

To celebrate the release of 'Thor: Love and Thunder,' Inverse presents a series of stories that embrace the glorious weirdness, diversity, and curious nature of Vikings and how we depict them today.

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The Guide #41: From Hacks to Kendrick Lamar, the year’s best pop culture … so far

In this week’s newsletter: To mark the halfway point of 2022, we – with the help of our discerning readers – look back at the pop culture we have loved the most

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Robert Eggers still can't believe Hollywood let him make 'The Northman'

Robert Eggers didn't want to make a viking movie. With 'The Northman,' he ended up making one of the best of all time. Here's how it happened.

Inverse

Alexander Skarsgård lost his voice — and found catharsis — as a Viking berserker

The Swedish actor describes himself as "quite a mellow guy." Playing a Viking warrior in the film The Northman gave Skarsgård a chance to tap into his animalistic nature.

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How the ‘Northman’ team pulled off that village raid and the (naked) volcano battle

Mounting a large-scale Viking epic was new territory for director Robert Eggers, whose “The Northman” opened in theaters in April. Among the film’s most ambitiously cinematic sequences are a brutal raid on a village that plays out in a single seemingly unbroken take and a jaw-dropping finale set atop an…

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'Bad Guys' bests 'The Northman,' Nick Cage at the box office

On an unusually crowded weekend at movie theaters that featured a pricey Viking epic and Nicolas Cage playing himself, DreamWorks Animation’s “The Bad Guys” bested the field

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Robert Eggers knew he'd have to fight for his vision of 'The Northman.' The result was worth it

With his latest film, "The Northman," director Robert Eggers is bringing his distinctive vision behind cult hits "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse" to something exponentially larger — a big-budget Viking epic. Opening in wide release from Focus Features this weekend, it's a pressure-cooker test case of what happens when a…

Los Angeles Times

Review: ‘The Northman’ an Ambitious, but Lean Revenge Tale

The first sign that not everyone in Robert Eggers’ 10th-century Viking revenge tale “The Northman” has their priorities entirely straight comes early in the film, when the Viking king Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke) returns home to the North Atlantic kingdom of Hrafnsey after a year of fighting overseas. After trudging up…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Northman director Robert Eggers used CGI genitals because ‘no one wanted to get their bits chopped off’

Film director has explained the reasons behind some artificial nudity in new thriller

The Independent UK

Norse code: are white supremacists reading too much into The Northman?

Robert Eggers’ Viking blockbuster has already been hailed by white nationalists keen to exploit European mythology. Can Hollywood tell historical tales without unwittingly appealing to toxic ideologies?

The Guardian - UK

A Viking Epic to Conquer Them All in ‘The Northman’

Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest memories are from Oland, a Swedish island on the Baltic Sea, where his great-grandfather built a home many years ago. His grandfather would regale him with tales of Viking history while walking…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A Viking epic to conquer them all in 'The Northman’

Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember

The Independent UK

‘The Northman’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman star in a wild beast of a Viking saga

In 1982, “Conan the Barbarian” enticed audiences with a poster promising four phases of a rough man’s rough life: “Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King.”

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Evening Standard

The Northman director Robert Eggers calls the film ‘the most painful experience of my life’

“What’s more elemental than a naked swordfight on top of a volcano?”

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Northman’: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman get fierce in a boldly bloody Viking saga

Epic holds our attention with unforgettable visuals and the sheer, raw audacity of its premise.

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: aged care staffing crisis, 2022 Covid death toll double previous years, Belinda Giblin’s prized belongings

Wednesday: Home care services for elderly unable to operate in some areas. Plus: the Australian sports chasing the US dream

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The Witch: Robert Eggers’ folk horror debut worms its way under your skin

As The Northman arrives in cinemas, Eggers’ first feature – which also introduced Anya Taylor-Joy to audiences – values dread over cheap jump scares

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Movie review: Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ is a violent feast for the senses

You never would accuse Robert Eggers of being just another filmmaker.

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Movie review: Viking tale 'The Northman' is Robert Eggers' best film yet

Director Robert Eggers brings the Viking epic back to the big screen in a big, bold and bloody way with “The Northman,” starring Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard in a new retelling of the myth of Amleth, the Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Eggers, who made a splash with his…

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'The Northman' review: Its steel is strong, but hammered poorly into blockbuster mold

At the end of Robert Eggers' first movie, 2015's "The Witch," Anya Taylor-Joy's character joins an eerie group of witches in the woods and — in a shocking and subversive moment — lifts off into the air, free from gender roles and gravity.

Manchester Evening News

Who is in The Northman cast and what is the action movie about?

Robert Eggers’ new film features big names like Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman in the cast

The Guardian - UK

The Northman review – Robert Eggers’s ambitious, preposterous Viking epic

Understatement is not on the menu as Alexander Skarsgård scorches through a mission of bloody vengeance in this oddly plodding Scandi saga

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The Guide #30: It’s time for Hollywood to bring back the erotic thriller

In this week’s newsletter: the genre that brought us Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction is all but dead – surely it’s due a progressive, modern day comeback?

The Independent UK

The Northman review roundup: What the critics are saying about Robert Eggers’ bloody viking epic

‘History comes thundering back to life in “The Northman”, in a chorus of howls, farts, and belches,’ Clarisse Loughrey wrote

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