Shazam! Review
Let’s get this out of the way first of all, Shazam! is the best superhero Christmas film ever. It’s a joyous and fun flick about a kid and the inner super… err… man that exists within him. When Billy…
Andrew F Peirce
Andrew is the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, author of Lonely Spirits and the King. You can find him online trying to enlist people into the cult of Mac and Me.
971 posts
Boorloo, Western Australia
Pet Sematary Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
As a vet nurse, I saw more than enough pet related tragedy for a lifetime. I wrote about the five things I learned as a vet nurse a while ago, and the third point still rings true. I can still remembe…
Us Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. Jordan Peele’s follow up to the Oscar winning Ge…
The Oath Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Like standing in the eye of a hurricane, assessing every piece of debris flashing past your face, it often a fool’s…
The Guilty Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
If 55% of communication is made up of body language, then the pressure put on the remaining 45% when it is primarily employed to help create a tense, powerful narrative in a visual medium like film, i…
Destroyer Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Destroyer is a punch in the gut, every day, for decades. It’s a bruise conjuring force of anguish and aggression that works like a soldering iron on an open wound, cauterising trauma that will never h…
Dogman Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
For the dog lovers out there, we’re used to watching films where dogs are part of the main plot, and inevitably, one of the dogs dies to create some kind of empathetic moment. Fortunately, with Matteo…
The Sisters Brothers Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
I’ve had this review sitting at the top of my ‘to do’ list for a good two weeks now. Yet, whenever I sat down to write, it slipped my mind. I simply forgot that it needed to be done. Which is a mighty…
Fell Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Grief is an all-encompassing entity that consumes your life if left untamed. In Kasimir Burgess’ film Fell, the grief that takes residence in Matt Nable’s Thomas after the accidental death of his daug…
If Beale Street Could Talk Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
It doesn't matter that this film stole my heart. I didn't need it anyway. Author James Baldwin’s work has rarely been translated to cinema. I Am Not Your Negro took unpublished writings and p…
We Don't Need a Map Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Warwick Thornton is a director with an agenda – namely, the agenda to bring Indigenous stories and history to life via cinema. From Samson & Delilah to Sweet Country, he strings a bow that links t…
Serenity Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Ok, so, Matthew McConaughey is Baker Dill, a sweat drenched, eternally five-o’clock-shadowed tanned man of the ocean. In what initially appears to be the strangest adaptation of Moby Dick, Baker Dill…