Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
I received a PhD from the English department of the University of Sydney for my thesis, Action! America: The Impulse to Action in American Literature and Film.
Best Picture at the Oscars? Why it has to be The Favourite out of a weak bunch
Feb 19, 2019 16:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
2018 was a good year for cinema but this is not reflected in the Oscar nominations for Best Picture. This years nominees are notable mainly for their mediocrity. There are, of course, a couple of exceptions. The...
The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
Dec 08, 2018 17:27 pm UTC| Entertainment
Review: The School Theres something about the Australian context that lends itself to explorations of horror. As I have argued elsewhere, the combination of what historian Geoffrey Blainey famously described as the...