Kaleidoscope

Plus Copenhagen Cowboy, Extraordinary, Sam Worthington in a homegrown thriller and lots of Rocky movies.

Honourable mentions: Cosi (film, 1 January), Good Night, and Good Luck (film, 1 January), Somewhere Boy (TV, 5 January), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (film, 6 January), Bird of Passage (film, 6 January), Am I Being Unreasonable? Honourable mentions: Sometimes When We Touch (TV, 4 January), Angola Do You Hear Us? “When you go into prison you quickly come to realise that there are a few things that no one can take from you – your dignity and your ability to create,” says artist Jesse Krimes told Deadline, reflecting on his artistic ideals and his time in a federal prison. “Since the fog came in, some of our crew have had psychological difficulty,” says one character in the trailer, which sounds like a bit of an understatement given all those creepy visuals and talk about how the crew have encountered “something old” that’s “waking up”. [Boys in the Trees](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/20/boys-in-the-trees-review-a-coming-of-age-film-with-fright-night-flourishes)) begins inside its eerie titular location – a disused amusement park – where a young man observes a bunch of mask-wearing ghosts then gets out of there, toot suite. This supernatural thriller created by David Macpherson and directed by John Strickland (whose credits include Line of Duty and Bodyguard) follows a crew working on an oil rig off the Scottish coast who are hit by a thick mysterious fog that covers the rig and summons eerie happenings. [Avatar: Way of the Water](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/13/avatar-the-way-of-water-review-james-cameron). Copenhagen Cowboy follows a young woman, Miu (Angela Bundalovic), who navigates Copenhagen’s criminal underbelly and is joined by her nemesis for – according to the official synopsis – “an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural”. After a strong start Black Snow’s screenwriters struggle to maintain tension across its six-episode arc – but those partial to a good ol‘ small-town mystery will probably find enough to satisfy. The director of Drive, Only God Forgives and Too Old to Die Young returns to his motherland for (his words) a “poetic neo-noir”, marking his first Danish language production since 2005. He recruits a young cadet to help, though it’s not just anyone: this cadet is fond of poetry and is named Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling). [Netflix](https://www.theguardian.com/media/netflix) will present episodes randomly, each viewer experiencing them in a different order (other than the finale, which is the same for all).