True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Directed by Andrew Dominik
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It’s not only an original take on the story, but a shocking and startling accomplishment in filmmaking that can only be described as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as directed by Paul Verhoeven.
It’s easy to imagine that Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was Kurzel’s template for how to unpack to the mysticism that comes so inherent with a well trodden folk story.
Working on a more manageable scale (and with a more pliant cast), he returns now with Color Out of Space, a suitably wacko adaptation of the 1927 HP Lovecraft alien invasion-themed short story of same name.
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