A Ghost Story (2017)
With a rounded-edged Academy ratio and a muted, earthy palette, A Ghost Story creates a reflective sense of time passed and passing.
Boys Don’t Cry: The Masculine Melodrama Of ‘Manchester By The Sea’
Manchester by the Sea’s protagonist represents the distillation of uncommunicative masculinity as well as its deleterious effects.
Top 10 picks of 2016 Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival
For SBS Movies, I run down the top ten films to see at the 2016 Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival.
Triple 9 (2016)
Modern day cops and robbers tales are all about blurring the lines between criminal and authority, which makes it a perfect fit for John Hillcoat, well known for his fascination with villians and anti-heroes. It’s a pity then that Hillcoat shortchanges himself with Triple 9, squeezing a three-hour story into a two-hour movie, and sacrificing…
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is somewhere between a history lesson and a thoughtful campfire tale, but without the romanticism this suggests – the outlaws here are real men, flawed, prideful, often inarticulate. This is not to say that the film is dry; its players may mumble their words, but the…
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