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 […]
Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Judy Davis and Anthony LaPaglia join Justin Kurzel’s new film
Snowtown and Assassin’s Creed director Justin Kurzel has set Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives), Essie Davis (True History of the Kelly Gang) and Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace) to star in his next feature film Nitram. The film is set to explore one of the darkest chapters […]
Movie Review – True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
True History of the Kelly Gang, 2019. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Orlando Schwerdt, Thomasin McKenzie, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam, Russell Crowe and Sean Keenan. SYNOPSIS: A retelling of the life story of infamous Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly, from a troubled childhood to his eventual demise at the hands of the […]
Exclusive Interview – True History of the Kelly Gang stars George MacKay and Essie Davis on telling an iconic story
Tom Beasley talks to George MacKay and Essie Davis about their roles in the fearsome real-life Outback thriller True History of the Kelly Gang… Taking on the role of Ned Kelly is a big challenge for any actor but, in the wake of an awards season run for World War One drama 1917, George MacKay […]
Exclusive Interview – True History of the Kelly Gang director Justin Kurzel on violence, Aussie lingo and Russell Crowe’s rude song
Tom Beasley talks to Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel about his new take on the life of the most famous bushranger in the country’s history… The story of Ned Kelly has been told many times on the big screen, stretching right back to arguably the first feature film ever made, more than a hundred years ago. […]