Tag Archives: social realism
Reviews
Review: Snowtown‘s horrifying social realism
Few films in recent years have given me nightmares. But there are images and sounds from Justin Kurzel’s first feature film, Snowtown, that keep taunting me in my sleep—a bloody and burned face hopelessly spluttering; a dog shot and whimpering; a man casually smoking a cigarette, naked … Read more
Recommended Reading
Kalinda Ashton’s Recommended Reading
As a child, I was entranced by the Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are. I can actually remember learning to read and what a difficult and pointless process it seemed, spelling out all those bloody letters and trying to sound out words. The relief … Read more
