Nitram is a haunting cinematic exploration of a troubled mind. Set against the backdrop of suburban Australia in the mid-90s. This 2021 biographical psychological drama delves into the life of a young ...

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 plays the disturbed perpetrator of the worst lone gunman shooting in modern Australian history in the director's taut social-realist thriller. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic ...

Controversial fact-based Australian drama “Nitram” won the first prize this weekend at the CinefestOZ film festival in West Australia. Worth A$100,000 ($73,000) the award is one of the richest in ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Justin Kurzel’s Nitram, a Stan-original film based on the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting committed by Martin Bryant, took home eight awards, including Best Film, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Warning: This story contains the name and images of a deceased Indigenous person. The year’s most controversial Australian film, Justin ...

“High Ground,” a 1930s-set drama film, picked up eight nominations for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. It narrowly led the field of contenders that included controversial ...

The Australian Academy Of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has crowned its winners for 2021, with Justin Kurzel’s Nitram scooping the Best Film award among eight total prizes. The movie, which ...

Nitram‘s plot synopsis: “Nitram (Caleb Landry-Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and ...

Caleb Landry Jones plays the disturbed perpetrator of the worst lone gunman shooting in modern Australian history in the director's taut social-realist thriller. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic ...