These Brooklyn genre-deconstructors put on a great show, and the hardest part of reviewing them is trying to describe what they’re ‘like’. But we can say conclusively that their hair is not like an eagle.

In the second part of our investigation into onscreen colonial encounters, we look at films that depict European colonialism as a narrative of progress from primitivism to 'civilisation'.

James Cameron's alien eco-adventure Avatar has been criticised for its colonialist overtones. We decided to examine how Hollywood really imagines the space of colonial first encounters.