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James Robert Douglas

James Robert Douglas is a writer, researcher, and media studies scholar in Melbourne, Australia.

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Why must every Hollywood hero have a dead or deadbeat dad?

An op-ed-y piece about Dads and dumb backstories in Hollywood blockbusters, for The Outline.

Brothers’ Nest

A review of Brothers’ Nest, for Neighbourhood Paper. 

Ready Player One review

A piece on Spielberg’s latest, for Sydney’s Neighbourhood Paper.

Enter the Dragon: How Australia Became China’s Gateway to Hollywood

A feature on Aus-China co-productions, for Guardian Australia.

Behind Belle Gibson’s cancer con: ‘Everything about this story is extreme’

An interview with the authors of The Woman Who Fooled the World, for The Guardian.  

Great Directors: George Miller

A profile/overview/analysis of George Miller’s career, for Senses of Cinema‘s Great Directors series.

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.

Diversity, millennials and Trump: big issues dominate Australia’s screen conference

A report from the Screen Forever conference, for The Guardian.

John Safran: ‘In Australia we don’t get religion’

An interview with John Safran, for The Guardian.

Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics?

Some op-ed-ish thoughts on Kong: Skull Island, for The Guardian.

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