Southside With You Review
Richard Tanne’s Southside With You is a film about foundations. It’s a film about the foundations of a culture, a society, a community. It’s a film that essays the foundations of what goes into the cr…
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.
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Boorloo, Western Australia
The Autopsy of Jane Doe Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Body horror films of late have mostly fallen into the torture-porn/gorno arena, with films like the Saw series and of course, Hostel, making as much use of the vicious, aggressive violence inflicted u…
24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
To immediately go on a tangent at the start of this review, I want to state that I have often found the concept of sports films very alienating. I get the representation of teamwork and conquering goa…
Bad Santa 2 Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Thirteen years ago, Terry Zwigoff unwittingly spawned a loosely related set of films focused around usually good people doing bad things. Bad Teacher, Bad Grandpa and another 2016 comedy, Bad Moms all…
Hell or High Water Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
One of the great things about the dark periods of society is that it can encourage great art to be created. Art that comments and reflects on the society it is created within. Films like The Hurt Lock…
Beast Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Just like many of the Australian films up for consideration at this years AACTA Awards, Sam and Tom McKeith’s Beast is a film that has flown completely under the radar. After a run at TIFF, a screenin…
Boys in the Trees Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
The subject of bullying is something that appears quite often in films - however, it's rarely as deftly handled as it is in Nicholas Verso’s Boys in the Trees. Toby Wallace headlines as Corey - a…
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back returns Tom Cruise to the role of the ex-U.S. Army Military Police Corps Officer turned drifter, Jack Reacher, and supplants him into a story already in motion. Through som…
Café Society Review
Andrew F Peirce
2 min read
Woody Allen returns to his love affair with the early 1900’s with his look at Hollywood and romance in Café Society. Thematically picking up where films like Midnight in Paris and Magic in the Moonlig…
Scare Campaign Review - A Genuinely Subversive and Exciting Aussie Horror Film
Andrew F Peirce
2 min read
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Something is happening Australian cinema right now that is pretty unexpected. The genre…
The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Theatre director turned filmmaker Ros Horin presents The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe, the story of a group of African women who fled their homeland, seeking safety in Australia, subsequently…
Blood Feast Review - An Ode to Herschell Gordon Lewis, the Godfather of Gore
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The Godfather of Gore - Herschell Gordon Lewis - passed away on the 26th of September 2016. As a young horror fan,…