Heaven's Burning Review
Heaven’s Burning is, like many 1990’s Quentin Tarantino wannabes, a derivative piece of crime fiction that struggles to punch through the façade of originality. Which is not to say that Craig Lahiff’s…
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
Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
When the rest of the world was making Threads, Miracle Mile and The Day After, Australia was busy making Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em. Writer/director Ray Boseley plugs in the amp, loads up the bong, a…
Instant Family Review - A Wonderful Embrace of the Family in All Forms
Andrew F Peirce
2 min read
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On paper, Instant Family has all the ingredients for being a mess. It’s directed by Sean Anders – he of That’s My B…
Cold War Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Director Pawel Pawlikowski is no stranger to brevity. All of his films have clocked in at under ninety minutes each, with an apparent concept of ‘get in, get out’ being employed. His latest effort, Co…
Best Documentaries of 2018
Andrew F Peirce
9 min read
I know that at the end of the year there is an overwhelming mass of ‘Best of’ lists to work through, so as I gradually work my way up to my ‘Best Films of 2018’ list, I thought I’d throw another selec…
Sweet Country and the Annual Death of Australian Cinema Discussion
Andrew F Peirce
19 min read
Each year, a post appears on a news website sounding the alarm that Australian cinema is dead. It’s dying! It’s all going down and you better start selling the furniture now because how else will you…
Terms and Conditions
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
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Pick of the Litter Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
I’ll be clear from the get go - it’s hard for me to objectively review Pick of the Litter. After working eight years a vet nurse, and having worked alongside organisations that train guide dogs, I’ve…
Bumblebee Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
As a course correct after five very successful Michael Bay directed Transformers films (making a gross figure of $1,449,356,365at the box office), Travis Knight’s Bumblebee is a strange affair. It’s b…
The Road Movie Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
When the Lumiere brothers crafted Arrival of a Train in La Ciotat, they would never have envisaged that the format they worked with would be used to tell the story of Russia as captured via dash cam f…
Aquaman Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Look, it’s a fools errand to try explain where the DC movie universe is up to at the moment. Either, you’re up to speed with the frayed narrative threads or you’re like me and you decided it was easie…
Vice Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
In nature documentaries, there are always two narratives working at once. You have the prey – a terrified gazelle fleeing across the Savannah, pulling every trick it knows in a bid to simply stay aliv…