Kit Harington has joined the cast of Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone opposite Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and fellow Game Of Thrones alum Carice van Houten. Also in the cast is Paul Anderson (Sherlock ...

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 ...

Upcoming features by Babak Jalali, Kamila Andini, Martin Koolhoven, Emily Atef, Yann Gonzalez and Diego Lerman are among 67 projects selected for the 12th Venice Gap-Financing Market. The project ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Martin Koolhoven (born April 25, 1969 in The Hague) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Born as Martinus Wouter Koolhoven, Koolhoven graduated from Dutch ...

Martin Koolhoven began his career by directing small, stylized films and has since become one of Dutch cinema's most successful screenwriters and directors. After graduating from film school in 1996, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Straightforward and solid but only mildly involving, “Winter in Wartime” is the coming-of-age story of a Dutch teen boy, set during the final months of World War II. Director Martin Koolhoven elicits ...

With “Brimstone,” a story of innocence and evil in the Wild West, filmmaker Martin Koolhoven has created a kind of endurance test. It’s not a matter of the movie’s length — even at 2½ hours, the ...

Films and TV shows are often a reflection of real life, and one of the most harrowing depictions of reality presented is sexual abuse. From harassment to rape, these subjects have often been ...

Why were you set on making a western? It’s not a usual choice for a European filmmaker. Martin Koolhoven: I have always been a big fan of the genre, but I have always been intimidated by it. There are ...