The Dutch director Martin Koolhoven had a major hit in the Netherlands with his 2008 WWII drama “Winter in Wartime” (released in the U.S. in 2011). He got offers from Hollywood, but chose instead to ...

Veteran director Martin Koolhoven has always been a fan of westerns. When it came time to make one, he knew he didn’t want just an “empty homage” to the genre. He wanted it to be an original story ...

40, is surely among the most sheerly enjoyable. Okay, it was directed by Denmark's Lone Scherfig (of The Riot Club and An Education), but the way it catches the Blitz ...

If you hear that Brimstone sees a man strangled by his own intestines and allows two women to have their tongues cut out then you might reasonably assume that Martin Koolhoven's western is in the same ...

A sadistic and woebegone western with an over-developed sense of its own significance. By Ryan Gilbey Here’s something to make you feel old: Dakota Fanning, the screaming poppet from the 2005 War of ...

THIS should, in hindsight be titled “Brimstone: it’s two and a half hours long folks, tell your bladder to settle in and make it a family sized pack of Doritos”. Split into four chapters, though not ...

For a long two-anda-half hours, Dutch writer/director Martin Koolhoven heaps unimaginable forms of misery on Dakota Fanning’s unfortunate young homesteader. This beautifully shot indie Western is ...

Guy Pearce is a reverend from hell and Dakota Fanning his runaway victim in Martin Koolhoven's epic sadomasochistic Western domestic horror film. The Dutch director Martin Koolhoven had a major hit in ...