Author: James Curnow
The 100 Greatest Australian Films of All Time: Part 5 (2005-2014)
In this final entry in our five part series on the greatest Australian films of all time, we focus our attention on the best Australian movies made since 2005. While the financial challenges of local film production continue to this day, a brief look at the output of the last ten years reveals an impressive…
The 100 Greatest Australian Films of All Time: Part 4 (1996-2004)
In Part 4 of our five part series on the 100 greatest Australian films of all time, we take a look at the best films released between 1996 and 2004. As a nation, this was a period of significant cultural shift for Australia. Globalisation and an increasingly diverse population were moving Australia further away from…
American Sniper: Chris Kyle, Clint Eastwood, American Manhood
American Sniper, an account of the life and times of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), the most lethal sniper in American history, bears the classic marks of a Clint Eastwood film. Eastwood’s career, intentionally or unintentionally, has always been deeply entangled with ideas of masculinity – ideas which cumulatively seem to suggest an overarching vision of…
The 100 Greatest Australian Films of All Time: Part 3 (1982-1995)
In Part 3 of our five part series on the 100 greatest Australian films of all time, we take a look at the tail end of the Australian New Wave and the birth of a new era of internationally successful film production in the 1990s. If the movies of the 70s and 80s revealed the…
Podcast – Interstellar
That’s right folks, here at CURNBLOG we’ve elected to give the world of Podcasting a go, and this is our first primitive attempt to enter the online audio universe. To be honest, we’re kind of making this up as we go along, so what these Podcasts are going to look like in the future is…