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Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Robert Connolly’s masterwork thriller, The Dry, transfers Jane Harper’s best-selling novel to the silver screen wit…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Subscribe via RSS Feed, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. As expected, going through the Best Picture winner…
Featured comfortably on my Best Australian Films of 2020 list is the joyous WA made short film, Sparkles. Written, co-produced, and starring Tina Fielding, this wonderful film follows Courtney, a t…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Andrew caught up with director Sally Ingleton to talk about her latest documentary, Wild Things. WILD THINGS is a feature length docum…
As each year rolls on, we find ourselves celebrating the anniversaries of classic and significant films. 2021 is one such year, with some of the most iconic and legendary Australian films celebrating…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On January 6th 2021, Jacob Angeli partook in an act that would confirm his place in the culture of memes. With the…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Going into Liselle Mei’s superb documentary Love Opera, I was, admittedly, ignorant about the art form of opera, with my exposure being mo…
Australian filmmaker Adrian Powers short film, Brolga, is an impressive work of creative collaboration, with Aboriginal artist Michael Connolly (Munda-gutta Kulliwari) providing the backbone for the e…
Usually, at this time of year, I would be presenting a list of my favourite films of the previous year. In the past, I’ve created a separate Best Australian Films list and a combined overall Best Film…
This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut, The Furnace, the imagery of a white-gowned choir of kids across the landscape…
2020, as has been heavily documented, was a difficult year for cinema as a whole. Australian cinema in particular was hampered by shuttered cinemas and confusing release schedules, with many iconic fi…
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…