Tag Archives: guy pearce

Australian writer/director David Michôd’s follow-up to his brilliant 2010 breakthrough, Animal Kingdom , is a film of awful aftermaths. Set in a ravaged but still-recognisable “Australia 10 years after the collapse” – an event barely spoken of, let alone explained – it concerns men who have reached the end of …

Legend has it that when an iddy-biddy Guillermo del Toro watched the 1973 Don’t Be Afraid… TV movie, it scared him so much, he was a convert for life. Having shepherded debut director Troy Nixey’s remake to the screen, he’s clearly trying to inspire/infect a new generation. But how many …