Wallander

Wallander' sleuths around for 'Masterpiece'....episode, "Sidetracked," begins with images both beautiful and disturbing:....There's little to no humor and few scenes of dramatic flourish.....Sidetracked" begins the "Wallander" series in an antiseptic, cool storytelling style..... ... Full Review

Wallander' stale British mystery....Branagh is pretty good at being mopey and jowly....Wallander" only superficially feels like something other than a British mystery.....If you're thinking Jane Tennison or Robbie Coltrane's Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, well, "Wallander" is a pale imitation.... ... Full Review

And Wallander's bleak but unresigned despair is reflected in wind-swept, fog-choked Ystad, a Baltic seaside town near Malmo.....there are some excellent, low-key performances by supporting actors who play Wallander's colleagues, notably Tom Beard as Svedberg, and Sarah Smart as Anne-Britt Hoglund.....The crimes are bizarre and gruesome, but even after so many years on the force, Wallander is not inured to violence;.... ... Full Review

Branagh contrives to look worse as the series goes on..... ... Full Review

Anyone wanting to play Inspector Wallander has to pass the soiled-underwear test. There is a revealing passage in Faceless Killers, the first of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander crime novels, in which the Swedish writer describes his permanently exhausted, world-weary detective... ... Full Article

The Rome Fiction Fest will fete Kenneth Branagh with a lifetime achievement award. The Brit multihyphenate will make the trek to the Eternal City to tubthump "Wallander," the BBC detective skein in which he plays the titular character and which... ... Full Article

Henning Mankell's novels have sold more than 30m copies worldwide and been translated into 41 languages. Three of his eight detective novels were made into a British television series starring Kenneth Branagh as Inspector Wallander. ... Full Article

Next, they asked about tying the film into the other Marvel movies and collaborating with other writers since all of their stories are converging to the Avengers team-up film and since we'll no doubt be seeing a pile of characters... ... Full Article

May 18, 2009 - Marvel has found their god of mischief to plague their god of thunder. Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Thor director Kenneth Branagh has cast his Wallander co-star Tom Hiddleston as the villainous Loki, over such bigger... ... Full Article

UPDATE: We've received a press release from Marvel that confirms Finke's scoop. "THOR reunites Hiddleston with Branagh, with whom he worked on the London production of Chekhov's Ivanov. ... Full Article