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Australian Rules Football is our national sport, yet it has long failed to engage with dismantling the gender inequality that exists within the community. While the existence of AFL Women’s league ame…
Welcome to The Curb’s first Shout Outs from the Soapbox, a rundown of the reviews, interviews, and news that have taken our interest over the past fortnight. The Curb is a reader supported website, w…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For as long as I've been a devotee of cinema, I've fo…
The 2024 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) continues the conversation of previous conferences with the forward-focused theme of Frontlines: Shaping the Future of Documentary &…
Deep into Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta’s serene documentary Nocturnes, we finally get to see the elephants. Cinematographer Satya Rai Nagpaul observes them from a distance as the herd lingers,…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Jon Bell's unsettling 2021 short film, The Moogai, receiv…
When it comes to experiencing cinema, one of the greatest honours that you can bestow upon a film is having an unexpected physical reaction to it. This might be an out place moment of laughter (the ba…
As the 2024 season commences, I want to take the time to reflect on the purpose of The Curb and what I hope to achieve by spotlighting the voices I do with the podcast. Ultimately, my goal has always…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Australian horror is experiencing something of a renaissance…
Koji Yakusho plays Hirayama in Wim Wenders Perfect Days, a quiet man who lives a life in solitude, working with great pride as a public toilet cleaner. We meet him as he starts his daily routine where…
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Before we dig into 2023, let’s take a short jump back to October 2021. Stage 1 of the Australian Feature Film Summit (AFFS) was taking place online, providing producers, distributors, exhibitors, and…