Australians own more guns today than they did in 1996. That year, the country’s largest mass shooting — the Port Arthur Massacre — led the government to swiftly adopt landmark gun control legislation, ...
Caleb Landry Jones is unbearably vivid in a film that's all the more stomach-churning for the violence that it leaves offscreen. It would be hard to overstate the fear that I felt in anticipation of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “High Ground,” a 1930s-set drama film, picked up eight nominations for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards ...
This Cannes Competition title arrives at a time when mass shootings, sadly, remain very much in the news. (It’s worth noting that, in 2003, a similarly-themed drama, Elephant, won the Palme d’Or.) ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On one hand, “Nitram” is to be celebrated as the first Australian movie in the prestigious main section for six years. On another, ...
In Nitram, Caleb Landry Jones plays the man who killed 35 people and wounded 23 others in a 1996 mass shooting in Australia. In late April 1996, 35 people were killed and 23 others were wounded after ...
The long fuse of Justin Kurzel's filmmaking meets the nervy flame of Caleb Landry Jones' performance in a devastating study of atrocity. “Nitram,” written by Kurzel’s “Snowtown” and “True History of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Saunders It’s terrifying to raise children whom you can neither manage nor understand, and those unfathomable depths are ...
The movie "Nitram" provides an in-depth portrait of the shooter who killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Australia, in 1996. NPR's Scott Simon discusses the film with director Justin Kurzel. "Nitram" is a ...
There is a scene early on in Nitram, Justin Kurzel's bull-headed portrait of the man responsible for the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, in which leading man Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside ...