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"We'll maintain our course. That's the last thing the Germans expect." Magnolia Pictures has revealed an official US trailer for a Norwegian WWII survival action thriller film called The Arctic Convoy, originally titled just Konvoi in Norwegian. This opened in Norway first late last year with a theatrical release, now it's getting a US release (direct-to-vod) in late July this summer. Who wants to enjoy chilly, freezing cold WWII cargo ship thriller in the middle of summer? Here you go. Summer 1941: Hitler seems unstoppable, invading the Soviet Union. Convoys of cargo ships with war materials began the perilous journey over to Murmansk. Ordinary sailors facing German superiority in the icy Arctic sea with their lives at stake. In 1942, the leader of a convoy carrying vital military supplies to a Norwegian outpost decides to proceed through treacherous, enemy-infested waters despite the recall of their military escort. 35 civilian ships brave brutal...

Editors note: This review was originally published May 22 after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film opened in New York on Wednesday and today in Los Angeles.

Timing can be cruel. Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli’s second feature, Sick of Myself, has the misfortune to arrive in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in the slipstream of Ruben Östlund’s divisive but funny competition title Triangle of Sadness; the latter being a broader, sillier but much more brutal dissection of class and culture. Sick of Myself also has to compete with the unexpected longevity of fellow countryman Joachim Trier’s hit The Worst Person In The World, which last year went from the Cannes competition all the way to the Oscars.

The net result is that despite another great, gutsy central performance from Ninjababy star Kristine Kujath Thorp, Sick of Myself won’t get...

Toxic relationships are terrible. There are no two ways about it. However, let’s just hope no one reading this ever experiences the toxicity seen in the new film, “Sick of Myself.”

As seen in the trailer for “Sick of Myself,” the film follows the story of a terrible relationship between Signe and Thomas. When Thomas earns a bit of fame as an artist, Signe decides to go a bit extreme to keep up, which leads to some really disastrous (and disturbing) consequences.

Read More: ‘Sick Of Myself’ Review: A Hilarious, Razor-Sharp Portrait Of The Worst Person In The World [Cannes]

The film stars Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Henrik Mestad, and Anders Danielsen Lie.

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