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Andrew is the author of Lonely Spirits and the King. You can find him online trying to enlist people into the cult of Mac and Me.
Buy Lanny from Booktopia here. Sitting on the Booker Prize longlist alongside Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Talesequel, and a book titled My Sister, The Serial Killer, is Max Porter’s Lanny. At once,…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Director Ari Aster exploded on the horror scene with his unsettling, performance driven flick Hereditary. Encompass…
It’s been a while since I’ve immersed myself in the field of ‘edutainment’ – that is, entertainment that educates. While I like to consider myself fairly ofay with all forms of cinema, the realm of fi…
Andrew was able to catch up with Aussie icon, Bryan Brown, on his press tour for his new film, Palm Beach. This is a new film by Rachel Ward about a group of friends coming together to celebrate a…
If you stand over a certain grate on a fairly innocuous concrete island in Times Square, New York City, you’ll experience something unique and memorable. This grate looks exactly like every other subw…
To the CHILDREN OF AUSTRALIA In the hope of enlisting their sympathies for the many Beautiful and frolicsome creatures of their fair land; Whose extinction through ruthless destruction is surely be…
The power of enduring stories is that they can be reshaped, remoulded, transmogrified, and morphed throughout time to become echoes of what they once were. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one such story, havi…
It’s always fascinating to see how non-Australian directors handle Australian stories. What views do they bring to Australia, and how do those views inform the Australian story they intend to tell? Te…
For the majority of film reviewers in Australia, Palm Beach is not a film aimed at them. With a huge wealth of older reviewers having been costed out of the industry due to decreasing wages and becaus…
I’ll say what you’re thinking right away, ‘what kind of white nonsense is this?’ Why do people who want to live a childfree life need a day of celebration? What even is ‘childfree’ living? Do we reall…
We’re eight films deep in the main Fast & Furious franchise, and thanks to some off screen squabbling between series headliner Vin Diesel and franchise kick-starter Dwayne Johnson, we’re now prese…
Amidst the deceptive darkness of the wide open outback, the moon hangs high in the sky like a beacon, luring a young girl from her bedroom and into a world she knows little about. Startled out of her…