Despite a familiarity with Johnson’s isolated world, Leah Purcell’s passion for The Drover’s Wife ultimately does her directing debut a massive disservice.
Knowing the legacy of the state Oklahoma, To The Stars turns what could have been a fairly run-of-the-mill coming of age story into a broader indictment of a state’s transcendent violence.
Cowboys is Anna Kerrigan’s delicate and modestly subversive take on the Western, in which a father violates his parole and pulls his son away from an unpleasant upbringing.
True History of the Kelly Gang wants us to sympathize with a murderer who suffered great trauma from birth to death. It’s unfortunate that the film’s most critical moments fall flat.
We spoke with True History of the Kelly Gang director Justin Kurzel about Ned Kelly’s significance to Australian culture and how his adaptation of the story is unique from those that have come before.