Author Archive for: ‘Tony Mitchell’

Rowan Woods’ 1997 film The Boys was released at a time when Australian cinema had just reached the end of its commercially viable, but at times rather shallow and gimmicky “quirky” phase, signalled by films such as Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom (Australia, 1992) and the Abba-drenched Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Elliott, Australia 1994) and Muriel’s Wedding (PJ Hogan, Australia 1994). The Boys was an example of an entirely different …