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The James Hotel in Brisbane looks a lot like any other mid budget hotel. It has no personality. It’s clean and anonymous. There’s nothing essentially wrong with it except Tobin Wade (Daniel Monks) can…
Richard Linklater and Glen Powell’s Hit Man is witty, sexy, and side-splittingly funny. Although it must be said that the first conceit that anyone could find Glen Powell even in repressed academic Ga…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In Vitro is the highly anticipated follow-up from Will Howart…
I genuinely don’t like to call “Australian shot feature film of the year” in June – but after seeing David Vincent Smith’s blazing debut feature, He Ain’t Heavy I am not sure I can imagine something t…
Director and writer Amanda Kramer (Ladyworld, Give Me Pity!, Please Baby Please) moves into the realm of cinema essay with So Unreal - a survey of cinema which coincided with the rise of computers in…
Director Sara Margrethe Oskal’s Eallogierdu (The Tundra Within Me) is a tale of two worlds. Single mother and artist, Lena has been living in Oslo with her young son. Returning to her hometown in Sámp…
“If you really thought of me as your Auntie, you wouldn’t ask that.” For thirty years Pat and Angie have lived together. Now in their sixties they are entering what should be their golden years toget…
In Hanna Slak's Not a Word (Kein Wort), Lars Goff (Jona Levin Nicolai) and his conductor mother Nina Palcek (Maren Eggert) share an apartment that is beautifully appointed but austere. The weight…
Although discrete films, Martin Bourboulon’s Musketeer series is an epic which can be considered a single entity. Beginning with D’Artagnan and (perhaps) ending with Milady the two films are in some m…
Indie horror adjacent comedy The Civil Dead is a testament to how effective low-budget filmmaking can be. The creators go all in on their concept with a keen awareness of its absurdity being key to th…
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story is an award-winning documentary about a Russian superstar actor - The ‘Russian Robert Redford’ - who defected from the Soviet Union in 1985 after being targeted by the Brezh…
If you know little about the art world, you might not know who Apolonia Sokol is. If you know little about FEMEN and their ongoing protests, you might not know who Oskana Shachko was. Lea Glob’s docum…