So the 83rd Academy Awards – the only awards show that still kind of matters! – is tomorrow night. Sadly, I will be unable to watch unless I stumble across a television. But that won’t stop me from making a list of the nominees I’d like to see win. I don’t care about who actually [...]
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Mailbox Film Festival #2: Animal Kingdom (Michôd, 2010)
Posted in Say/Think, tagged 2010, 2010 movies, animal kingdom, australian film, ben mendelsohn, david michod, guy pearce, jacki weaver, luke ford, mailbox film festival, movies, oscars, sullivan stapleton, the town on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Animal Kingdom has been described by more than one critic as “the Australian Goodfellas,” a comparison even director David Michôd dismisses. Really, the film Animal Kingdom resembles most closely is Ben Affleck’s The Town, both of which came out in the US last fall. Unlike Goodfellas‘s Henry Hill, an outsider who ingratiates himself with the [...]
