My article on Ghosts… of the Civil Dead for Senses of Cinema as part of their Key Moments in Australian Cinema series: The anger that seethes throughout John Hillcoat’s
Tag: Australian cinema
Film review – The Rocket (2013)
The Laotian environment as portrayed in writer/director Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket is both one of immense natural beauty and one of environmental degradation, danger and
Film review – Lore (2012)
In 2009 Michael Haneke made The White Ribbon, a striking study of the children who would become the generation responsible for Nazism as adults. The
Glamour over grit at the AACTA Awards Ceremony
I’ve recently become one of the regular film and television columnist for the Kill Your Darlings blog Killings. For my first piece I wrote about
Why I Adore Dogs in Space
I first saw Dogs in Space (written and directed by Richard Lowenstein) when I was in my twenties, some time in the late 1990s, about
Film review – Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011)
Singer/songwriter Rowland S. Howard hailed from the early Melbourne punk scene where at the age of 16 he wrote ‘Shivers’; a frequently misinterpreted cynical masterpiece
CINEMA AUTOPSY 