My Old Ass in an Enriching Gift of a Coming-of-Age Tale
“I’ll show you what you're worth (that's what I'm gonna do) If you let me inside your world.” - Canadian folk poet Justin Bieber Elliott (Maisy Stella) is about to turn eighteen and in tw…
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Daaaaaalí is a Glorious Oddity from Quentin Dupieux
Quentin Dupieux understands there is no such thing as Salvador Dalí. Once the mad Catalan decided he was going to become a walking paradox making grandiose statements about himself in the third person…
Michael Angarano's Sacramento is a Rough Gem of a Road Trip Dramatic Comedy
Sacramento screens at the Sydney Underground Film Festival on 14 & 15 September. Tickets are available here. “I don’t know if I listened to everything you said, but I heard free childcare and I’m…
Speak No Evil is an Invitation Best Refused
There is a danger inherent in remaking any film. Comparisons to the original are destined to be considered especially if the movie is not an adaptation of a literary source. James Watkins under the Bl…
Thelma is a Hilarious, Charming, and Huge-Hearted Triumph
“What would Tom Cruise do?” That is the question ninety-three-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) asks herself when she falls victim to a phone phishing scam. Thelma’s day-to-day routine post her rela…
Kneecap is the Craic – It’s Brave, Bold, Ridiculous, and Relentless
“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for freedom.” Fuck up it is! Rich Peppiatt’s hyper-kinetic Kneecap is A Hard Day’s Night for the North of Ireland and the hip hop generation. A little bi…
MIFF: I Saw the TV Glow is Pure Original Art in its Deepest Form
They can’t hurt you if you don’t think about them. Jane Schoenbrun is interested in the power of screens. Their debut featureWe’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a coming-of-age narrative where iso…
MIFF24: Bookworm is a Charming and Magical Family-Friendly Adventure
Ant Timpson’s blooming lovely Bookworm converts the most cynical of hearts and makes them believe in magic. A rare film that speaks to kids and adults with sincerity and without condescension. Idiosy…
MIFF24: Teaches of Peaches is a Conventional Documentary for an Unconventional Queer Icon
Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s documentary Teaches of Peaches is conventional to the point of being near antithetical to the artist at its centre. Merrill Nisker, known around the world as…
Touch (Snerting) is a Bittersweet and Moving Testament to Love
The film that Baltasar Kormákur made immediately prior to Touch (Snerting) was Beast (2022) a survival adventure where Idris Elba punches a lion. Seeing the Icelandic director’s name attached to a hea…
Mike Cheslik and Co Explain Why Hundreds of Beavers is the Mad Must See Indie Event of the Year
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. One of the smash hit films of the year on the festival circui…
MIFF24: Who By Fire (Comme le feu) is an Excessive Yet Powerful Commentary on the Psyche of Men
The wounded male ego spins out of control over a too long weekend in Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire, a claustrophobic and searing portrait of middle-aged male anomie brushing against the generation who…