https://vo.rs/tags/david-michod/Latest from the David-Michod desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/animal-kingdom-the-australian-crime-family-from-hell/<p>The title tells you what kind of film this is before anyone throws a punch. <em>Animal Kingdom</em> — David Michôd&rsquo;s 2010 debut, and one of the great first features of the century — looks at a Melbourne crime family the way a wildlife programme looks at a pride of lions: no romance, no code of honour, just animals working out who eats and who gets eaten. The gangster picture usually flatters its subjects. This one strips the glamour off and leaves you with something closer to the truth of organised crime, which is that it is mostly frightened men doing stupid, violent things because they are cornered.</p>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000