It’s a common lament among booksellers that you just can’t get people interested in short story collections, which is a shame considering writers as diverse as HP Lovecraft, E Annie Proulx, Angela Carter, Eileen Chang and Jorge Luis Borges have produced their finest works in this form. So it’s to […]
Australia
Wake in Fright (1971) All the validation ‘Ozploitation’ ever needed (Review)
For a long time, Wake in Fright (aka Outbreak) was regarded as one of the ‘great lost Australian films’. Although critically celebrated across the board, its infamously unsympathetic presentation of Australia, unflinching hunting scenes and poor box office saw it lost to history. Back in 2009, Ted Kotcheff’s film was […]