Milly Alcock tries her best to salvage the super generic Supergirl
Milly Alcock is the sole bright spot in the derivative adventure, propping up a script that does little to serve her or the titular character.…
Internal Worlds: Jessica Sofarnos on exploring life, grief, and living in Australian cinema
There’s a calm, lived-in nature to Jess Sofarnos’ films, one where she holds a mirror up to herself, reflecting emotions and experiences that are familiar and relatable, yet rarely seen in Australian…
Giveaway: Saccharine Preview Screening @ Luna Leederville
For our Western Australia based supporters, we're excited to giveaway four double passes to a preview screening of Natalie Erika James' acclaimed horror Saccharine on 6:30pm Monday 29 June 202…
Hal Kirkland on his his sci-fi comedy Please and Thank You
Stop Talking Shit to Siri, You Fool. “What are you thinking?!” Surely you realise all these devices are listening. Everything you say, including the names you call them, is being stored somewhere. A…
Visar Morina on his devastating Kosovar drama Shame and Money
My biggest challenge was to create a shift. To start with a social environment, and basically to examine what it does to the people offering themselves every day and being treated like they are treated.…
Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus
The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…
“Australia. Find out who you are, and you’ll know how to love somebody else.” - Asian-Australian Memories of Film, Identity and Belonging
In 1983 Hungarian-Australian director Carl Schultz adapted Sumner Locke Elliott’s award-winning novel Careful, He Might Hear You into a film Australia itself has largely forgotten. Set in Depression-e…
Pixar’s Toy Story 5 embraces familiar warmth to tackle childhood in the digital age
Toy Story 5 feels like a natural next step for a franchise that has proved its relevance for over three decades.…
David West on breaking cinema with the hyper independent Lint
Lint is the first feature film from Boorloo-Perth creative David West. It's a hyper independent West Aussie film about Iris (Melissa Coci) and Susan (Courtney Swartz), colleagues who work at an en…
A Return of the Curb Podcast
Kaya, wanjoo, hello, welcome. It’s been a while folks. After some months away from the world of the Curb, I’m finally returning to clear the backlog of interviews and discussions that have been…
Tony Kaye’s documentary on his legendary battle with Hollywood is wildly engrossing
Tony Kaye’s documentary is a vivid portrait of a man so over his head that he’s become more than a little mad.…
Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…