How do you confront the bleakest of challenges? A family faces a world altered by nature and fate in “Families Like Ours.” The series sees Denmark in crisis as rising water levels prompt mass evacuations. Suddenly, an entire country grapples with finding a new place to call home and the prejudices accompanying their plight. The series hails from celebrated filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg,  whose previous efforts include the critically acclaimed films “Another Round” and “The Hunt.” Vinterberg directs all episodes — additionally co-writing ‘Ours’ with Bo Hr.

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How does a natural disaster bring about change? Some will find new purpose while others see their lives drastically shift in “Families Like Ours.” The series follows random people as a forced evacuation takes place. Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg helms all seven episodes. The “Another Round” and “Far from the Madding Crowd” filmmaker co-wrote ‘Ours’ with Bo Hr. Hansen.

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MARRAKECH – Receiving a career achievement award at this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival (which ended this past weekend), Mads Mikkelsen (“Doctor Strange,” “Pusher”) would be the first to acknowledge that had he been born a girl, his acting career might not have been half as successful.

The former gymnast, dancer, and “Casino Royale” Bond villain, Mikkelsen, said one of the things he finds most frustrating in the film industry is gender inequality for actors.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

This week’s disc and streaming debuts include the latest from an Oscar-winning international filmmaker, the latest from a Film Twitter favorite, a pair of great 2020 documentaries, and two classics getting the 4K Criterion treatment.

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No matter what the film is, when a Hollywood studio announces its intentions to make an English-language remake of an acclaimed foreign-language film, folks get upset. Most of the time, it all revolves around film fans that don’t understand why American audiences are so hesitant to watch films with subtitles. But for the recently announced English-language remake of “Another Round,” despite potentially starring Leonardo DiCaprio, film fans seem more agitated than usual.

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One of the most surprising bits of news to come out of the Oscars aftermath is the report that Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company has secured the rights to an English-language remake of the Oscar-winning film, “Another Round.” As you might expect, the news was met with immediate WTF?! energy by Film Twitter. This movie has barely been released and just won an Oscar and Hollywood is already out to remake it?

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If you’re a fan of Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning film, “Another Round,” it might be time for you to take a seat. I am about to deliver some news that might be upsetting. Even though we should have expected this, considering how Hollywood loves to do this, it appears that studios have already nabbed the rights to make an English-language remake of “Another Round.” Yes, that’s real. But would you be any happier to know Leonardo DiCaprio might star?

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The 2021 Oscars didn’t look like a typical awards show. It surely didn’t flow like a typical awards show. But yet, no matter how much you change things up, you can’t escape the inevitability of awards acceptance speeches. And with no orchestra to play them off and cut speeches short, this year’s winners were able to dig deep and deliver some truly memorable moments.

READ MORE: Oscars 2021 Full Winners List: ‘Nomadland’ Wins Best Picture, ‘Sound Of Metal,’ Anthony Hopkins & More

The highlights, of course, include Daniel Kaluuya reminding everyone that his parents had sex and that because he won, he’s going to party.

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While “Another Round” doesn’t have the same Oscar chances that “Parasite” did last year, Thomas Vinterberg’s dramedy about excessive drinking is easily one of the best films of the past year and should be must-see programming for anyone who hasn’t already enjoyed the Mads Mikkelsen-starring feature. And after seeing “Another Round,” people will most definitely be interested in seeing what Vinterberg has up his sleeve next, which appears to be a new TV series, “Families Like Ours.”

READ MORE: Sofia Coppola & Thomas Vinterberg Talk ‘Another Round,’ ‘On The Rocks’ & Family Dramas [Exclusive]

According to Variety, Thomas Vinterberg is set to co-write and direct “Families Like Ours,” a new drama series that will be distributed by Danish broadcaster TV2.

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On paper, Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” and Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks” don’t share a lot of similarities. You have Vinterberg’s film showing the downward spiral of a group of teachers that test the limits of drunkenness and then Coppola’s feature showing a rather dysfunctional father/daughter relationship. But really, when push comes to shove, these films are both about family. And drinking. But mostly family.

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The English translation of Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film, “Another Round,” might disguise the real nature of the imbibing that takes place on the screen. The original Danish title, “Druk,” which translates roughly to “Binge Drinking,” feels like a more fitting way to describe the gloriously choreographed chaos that plays out. Vinterberg and co-writer Tobias Lindholm put a high-concept spin on the midlife crisis movie as a group of four Danish friends, led by Mads Mikkelsen’s Martin, test a hypothesis that they can improve their humdrum existences by maintaining a consistent 0.5% BAC throughout the day.

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No one can have it all, but if you’re Mads Mikkelsen, you can get pretty close. The 55-year-old Danish actor is a man in demand for some of the biggest names in cinema: James Bond, Marvel, Star Wars … and now Harry Potter. Mikkelsen called amidst production on the third “Fantastic Beasts” film, in which he’s been tapped to replace Johnny Depp as villainous Gellert Grindelwald.

READ MORE: ‘Another Round’ With Mads Mikkelsen Is A Boozy Blast Of A Midlife Crisis Movie [TIFF Review]

But we’re chatting to discuss “Another Round,” Mikkelsen’s latest project in his native Denmark.

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Teaching is not an easy job. It doesn’t matter what subject, what age range, and what country you teach in, the profession has its fair share of difficulties. And in the new film, “Another Round,” four teachers decide the best way to deal with their job, and impending middle age, is to drink. Lots of drinking.

READ MORE: ‘Another Round’ With Mads Mikkelsen Is A Boozy Blast Of A Midlife Crisis Movie [TIFF Review]

As seen in the trailer for “Another Round,” Mads Mikkelsen teams with director Thomas Vinterberg for a film about four friends, all teachers, who decide to team up for a pact where they will stay continuously drunk to help them live their lives in a more pleasurable manner.

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Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” begins with the frenzied depiction of Danish youth completing a beer “case race,” though the debauched fun is fleeting for us – and them. The sequence collides with the film’s opening title cards, which quickly cede to a more sobering reality: a dry faculty meeting. Vinterberg’s opening clearly establishes the dichotomy that his characters try to resist and avoid, the depressing idea that life only exists in peaks and valleys.

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The premise of Thomas Vinterberg’s newest film, “Another Round,” which was recently announced as one of the 56 films chosen to be an Official Selection of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, might sound like fodder for a silly “Hangover“-esque comedy. But as you watch the new trailer, that is clearly not the case.

READ MORE: Cannes 2020 Line-up: Wes Anderson’s ‘French Dispatch,’ 2 New Steve McQueen Movies & Much More

As seen in the trailer, “Another Round” tells the story of a group of friends that decide to hold an experiment to see if maintaining a certain level of alcohol intoxication can benefit their daily lives.

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There are probably a ton of school-aged kids today that wish their teachers were drunk all the time. Wouldn’t class and school, in general, be easier if your instructors had a constant buzz? Well, this is the idea that is set to be explored in the upcoming film from director Thomas Vinterberg and his star Mads Mikkelsen.

According to Screen Daily, Vinterberg is set to direct the film titled “Druk” (international title will come later), which is going to see the filmmaker team up with his co-writer Tobias Lindholm.

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Skateboarding on the cinematic spectrum of punk to mainstream, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg no longer wears ripped jeans. Once the co-conspirator behind the Dogme 95 manifesto with Lars Von Trier — a raw, minimalist, limitations-driven punk-cinema movement ala the early White Stripes rules of only 2 instruments to find pureness —Vinterberg put away his DIY, impish, abrasive tendencies long ago in favor of something more refined. He’s continued with resonant art films (the magnificent “The Hunt”), but has evolved and matured too, taking on more mainstream work like 2015’s romantic drama “Far From The Madding Crowd.

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It has been six years since Thomas Vinterberg unveiled his Oscar-nominated psycho-drama “The Hunt” at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012, though it feels as if it were just yesterday.

READ MORE: Toronto International Film Festival: 22 Most Anticipated Movies

As the co-founder of the Dogme 95 movement — the other forefather being Lars Von Trier — Vinterberg is hardly a novice in the cinematic world, though both of his most recent features “Far From the Madding Crowd” and “The Commune” have failed to shake up the scene when compared to “The Hunt” or his debut outing “The Celebration.”

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Nevertheless, the filmmaker’s upcoming film “Kursk” may be able to change the tide in Vinterberg’s favor.

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Matthias Schoenaerts & Thomas Vinterberg Reteam For Submarine Survival Tale ‘Kursk’

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Berlin Review: Thomas Vinterberg's 'The Commune'

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Thomas Vinterberg Lines Up Submarine Movie 'Kursk' And Danish Movie That Will Be "A Celebration Of Alcohol"

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Watch: First NSFW International Trailer For Thomas Vinterberg's 'The Commune'

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Matthias Schoenaerts Talks 'Far From The Madding Crowd,' Working With Carey Mulligan, Trying Out Comedy & More

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Interview: Thomas Vinterberg Talks ‘Far From The Madding Crowd,’ Working With Carey Mulligan, 'The Commune' & More

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Watch: Carey Mulligan Juggles Matthias Schoenaerts & Other Lovers In The New ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ Trailer

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