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Image: Top L-R: Yousef Jubeh, Brahim Snoopy, Anas Saeed, Phil Cox; Bottom L-R: Giovanna Stopponi, Rawia Alhag, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed; Photo Copyright: Native Voice Films Five lives. One city. The fat…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Gianluca Matarrese's gentle documentary Gen_ opens with overwhelming imag…
Steven Soderbergh’s body of work shows an auteur who engages in the art of exploring how the form and function of cinema impacts narrative. Soderbergh’s process of embedding filmmaking techniques with…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. If there's a minor blessing that has emerged from the pandemic, it's…
Karla Sofía Gascón made Academy Award history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting award for her performance as the titular character in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.…
How do you follow up a film which managed to dethrone Citizen Kane as the best film of all time? Well, if you’re first-time feature filmmaker Dougal Wilson, you approach directing Paddington in Peru w…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Jason Raftopoulous is a filmmaker who I owe my continued writing career to. I…
Let's take a moment to look ahead in 2025 to a few of the Australian films that will get people talking. Two particular films had their world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2024, where…
Writer, director, producer, collaborator Tanya Modini has received her second Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award nomination for her short film And the Ocean Agreed. This no…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Die Bully Die is a short film built on the notion of retribution and exorcisi…
Right, there’s no beating around the bush: 2024 was a hard year for Australian films. An engaged film critic should hold their local film industry to account, with the following piece delving into th…
So, what of the best Australian films of 2024 then? The below list talks a look at thirty-one of the best Australian films of 2024. Collectively, those thirty-one films highlight the future state of…