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A pulsing party spills into the street as a man pushes through the crowd, calling out for his brother. Making his way into the house, he follows the angry directions of partygoers who voice an unsympa…
Mystery narratives are difficult beasts to wrangle onto film. The writer and director must stay one step ahead of the audience, working to ensure that essential information is revealed at the right ti…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Filmmaker Phoebe Wolfe's short film The Overthrow tells the stor…
This review contains spoilers. On January 17th, I visited one of the last remaining Sanity stores in Perth to scour their shelves for bargain prices as the clocked ticked over to the nationwide closu…
With My Old School, filmmaker Jono McLeod retells the story of his classmate ‘Brandon Lee’ (not real name) at Bearsden Academy in Glasgow in the early 90s, and the curious and ‘legendary’ (their word,…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Flickerfest is one of the leading Academy Award accredited and BAFTA…
Jeanne (Blanche Gardin) is having a very bad year. Her pivotal marine-cleaning invention is an instant-disaster, failing at launch and sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Jeanne turns into a social me…
Being a filmmaker anywhere is hard. It’s a miracle when an idea for a film manages to go through the effort of being thought up, being turned into a script, then have funding sought, followed by casti…
In 2017, Luke Buckmaster asked in response to the launch of OzFlix – a premium video on demand (PVOD) service created by Australian film industry veterans Ron Brown and Alan Finney - whether we really…
I can’t recall how old I was the first time I watched Byron Haskin’s genre-defining 1953 classic The War of the Worlds, but what I do recall is the impact of seeing the chrome ships of Martians emergi…
If you vaguely follow film news at all, you’ve likely seen the mildly obsessive tracking of the box office take of James Cameron’s latest film, Avatar: Way of Water. While it is – by all accounts – a…
Frances O’Connor is no stranger to costume dramas and period films, having featured in an impressive array of notable films such as Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park (1999), Oliver Parker’s The Importa…