Every issue of Little White Lies is dedicated to a single film. This issue is about Robert Eggers’s intricately-designed revenge epic The Northman.

In this issue:

• In anticipation of Robert Eggers’ The Northman, Tom Huddleston offers a potted history of the Viking movie genre
• Robert Eggers, co-writer and director of The Northman, discusses his idiosyncratic Viking epic
• Hannah Strong meets newly-minted leading man Alexander Skarsgård ahead of his muscular turn in The Northman
• The top 50 films of the new millennium