Burning Review
A barn burns in the middle of the night while a motherless calf simply exists in a nearby shed. A long lost friend magically reappears and asks Lee Jong-su to care after her cat while she visits Afric…
Andrew F Peirce
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.
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The Hate U Give Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
I first came to The Hate U Give via the simply superb audiobook as read by Bahni Turpin. Her embodiment of the narrator, sixteen year old Starr Carter, was perfect, allowing the book to feel like it w…
Storm Boy Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
This review will contain spoilers. In the year 2019, Colin Thiele’s classic novella, Storm Boy, will be celebrating its 55th anniversary. To honour this momentous occasion, there has been a video gam…
Australian Film Critics Association 2019 Award Nominations
Andrew F Peirce
2 min read
While the Awards season rages on, it’s worthwhile shining a light on what’s going on in Australia. The annual AFCA Film Award nominations have been announced, and there’s a wealth of great films up fo…
The Kid Who Would Be King Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
You may have thought we were done with Arthurian legends given the dud-showing at the box office Guy Ritchie’s cockney, bar brawling King Arthur had when it crash landed in 2017, but Joe Cornish is he…
Andrew's Top 50 Films of 2018
Andrew F Peirce
22 min read
Films
Reviews
australian film
Columbus
documentary
Downrange
Drama
Faces Places
First Reformed
Happy End
Hearts Beat Loud
horror
In the Fade
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Jane
Jane Goodall
Lady Bird
Leave No Trace
Let the Corpses Tan
Love Simon
Michael Haneke
Mission Impossible Fallout
On Body and Soul
Padman
Phantom Thread
Pick of the Litter
Private Life
Revenge
Roma
Shirkers
Shoplifters
Skate Kitchen
Strange Colours
Sweet Country
Terror Nullius
The Cleaners
The Endless
The Insult
The Other Side of Hope
The Rider
The Shape of Water
The Wife
Tully
Upgrade
Vice
Widows
Won't You be My Neighbor?
You Were Never Really Here
Best of lists are always strange beasts. We sift through a year of ‘stuff’ trying to find value and quality, only to put it in some kind of arbitrary order. These lists always play like a competition…
Green Book Review
Andrew F Peirce
9 min read
Sitting down to watch Green Book in this current atmosphere of ‘cancel culture’ and supreme ‘woke-ness’ is to sit down with a film that you’ve possibly already made your mind up about. Well, that is,…
Heaven's Burning Review
Andrew F Peirce
7 min read
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…
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…