Ahead of its arrival on Prime Video this Friday, a new trailer and a poster have arrived online for Justin Kurzel’s drama series The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Based on Richard Flanagan’s novel of the same name, it tells the story of Dorrigo Evans from his time held as a POW during WWII, […]
Prime Video shares trailer for The Narrow Road to the Deep North starring Jacob Elordi and Odessa Young
Prime Video has released a trailer for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the upcoming drama based on Richard Flanagan’s novel of the same name. Directed by Justin Kurzel (Assassin’s Creed, Nitram), the miniseries follows the journey of Dorrigo Evans, through his time held in a prisoner of war camp, his love affair with […]
Movie Review – The Order (2024)
The Order, 2024. Written and Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Alison Oliver, Jurnee Smollett, Marc Maron, Odessa Young, Gordon Rix, Huxley Fisher, Matias Lucas, Philip Granger, Phillip Lewitski, Victor Slezak, George Tchortov, Sebastian Pigott, Bradley Stryker, Daniel Doheny, Ryan Chandoul Wesley, Geena Meszaros, Sean Tyler Foley, Sarah Haggeman, Morgan […]
Naomi Ackie joins Laura Dern and Benedict Cumberbatch in sci-fi Morning
Naomi Ackie (Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody) has joined Justin Kurzel’s (Macbeth) sci-fi film Morning, per The Hollywood Reporter. She’ll star alongside Laura Dern (Jurassic World: Dominion), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) in the film. Morning is a story about “human connection, productivity, and the power […]
Exclusive Interview – Nitram director Justin Kurzel
Jasmine Valentine chats with Nitram director Justin Kurzel… Even when we don’t admit it, the modern world has a morbid fascination for the true crime events that changed the world forever. But what happens when cold, hard facts become repackaged and dramatised? A film that always knows when to stop, Justin Kurzel’s Nitram is a […]
Movie Review – Nitram (2021)
Nitram, 2021. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Sean Keenan, Essie Davis, and Anthony LaPaglia. SYNOPSIS: Events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting in Tasmania in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred. The filmmaking team behind Nitram has made an effort to upfront state […]
Haunting new trailer for Justin Kurzel’s critically-acclaimed Nitram
Picturehouse Entertainment has dropped the UK trailer for Justin Kurzel’s critically-acclaimed drama Nitram, the film that won Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) the Best Actor award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Nitram, which we said was “executed with restraint, terror, and sensitivity” in our ★★★★ review, tells the story of events […]
Justin Kurzel’s Nitram gets a trailer from IFC Films
IFC Films has released a poster and trailer for director Justin Kurzel’s psychological drama Nitram. Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Judy Davis, and Anthony LaPaglia, the film explores the events leading up to one of Australia’s worst national tragedies, the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting; take a look here… Nitram (Caleb Landry Jones) lives […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nitram
Nitram, 2021. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia and Judy Davis. SYNOPSIS: A fictionalised take on the story of the Port Arthur shooting – the most notorious mass shooting in Australian history. The 1996 Port Arthur shooting is one of the most horrifying events in recent Australian history, and […]
Macbeth on Film: The Many Cinematic Adaptations of the Shakespeare Tragedy
Tom Jolliffe on the many film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth… Shakespeare may have been the scourge of G.C.S.E students for many years, but it seems that the long standing fascination with his work is in no danger of passing. Whether its Hamlet, Othello, one of the Henrys, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear or many […]
