A feature on Aus-China co-productions, for Guardian Australia.
Category: Feature
True crime plunderers: the dark truth about Hounds of Love and Australia’s new gorefest
A feature on Hounds of Love and Australian true-crime-ish films, for The Guardian.
Star Lords
We Talked to Director Crystal Moselle About The Boys of ‘The Wolfpack’, And How Their Family Has Responded to the Film
An interview with Crystal Moselle, on her documentary The Wolfpack, for Junkee.
With ‘The Gift’, Joel Edgerton Becomes One of Australia’s Most Exciting New Filmmakers
An interview with Joel Edgerton, re. his directorial debut The Gift, for Junkee.
The Pixar Theory of Labor
Unpacking the value system beneath the Pixar canon, for The Awl.
Partisan director Ariel Kleiman’s brave new worlds
A profile of the young Australian director Ariel Kleiman, for The Saturday Paper.
The Journey and the Destination: George R. R. Martin’s Narrative Method
Another essay for Meanjin, in which I try to unpack what it is that makes George R R. Martin’s storytelling so distinctive and, to my mind, underrated.
The Ark and the Flood
Thanks to the Discourses column, I got commissioned to write an essay to accompany a recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas panel, on the theme of ‘Cat Videos Will Save Journalism’. Published on Medium here.
The Age Critics Campus MIFF coverage
Couple of reviews and a feature on The Age here, along with same from the other excellent CC participants; Anders Furze, Ian Barr, Alice McCredie-Dando, Lawrence Barber, Harry Windsor, Kimberley Thomson, and Joanna Di Mattia.
