Nitram – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Carmen Paddock March 6, 2022 Reviews Justin Kurzel’s explorations of masculinity in crisis continue with a drama loosely based on the events leading to the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia - notably on the behaviour of its...
Made of Metal, Made of Lace: Dresses as Power in True History of the Kelly Gang Sophie Butcher March 9, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion One of the most well-known, true facts about notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is that he was eventually captured by police during a shootout where he was wearing bulletproof armour. Justin Kurzel’s...
True History of the Kelly Gang – Review Jack Blackwell February 26, 2020 Reviews With Sweet Country, The Nightingale, and now True History of the Kelly Gang, the outback western is having a real moment, bringing a more than welcome Aussie chaos to that most epic and stately of genres....
Assassin’s Creed – Review David Brake January 3, 2017 Reviews For an adaptation such as this, the stonefaced take is bold and offers the film respectability and weight. Heavily influenced by his own last outing, Macbeth, Justin Kurzel sticks to his strengths as a...
Why Do Videogames Make For Bad Movies? Jack Blackwell December 29, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion Traditionally, the relationship between films and videogames has been strained at the best of times. Game-based movies, from Super Mario Bros. to the Resident Evil series, are pretty much uniformly awful....
