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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
The earth echoes screams of fear taken in by a large parrot – Death (Arinzé Kene) embodied as an unfathomable feathered creature. Ineluctable and unswayed – the purpose is for the bird to silence the…
Pamela Adlon’s Babes begins with one of the most unconcerned “she’s in labour” scenes in recent memory. Eden (Ilana Glazer, also one of the screenwriters) and the heavily pregnant Dawn (Michelle Butea…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In a Violent Nature is one of the most gruesome and gory horr…
Chris Nash in an interview stated that In a Violent Nature should feel like an entry into a slasher cycle you haven’t seen the beginning of. The film requires an understanding of the genre and the con…
On a hot summer day in Oslo a mysterious pulse brings the recently dead back to life. Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel and co-scripted by Lindqvist and director Thea Hvistendahl, Handling the Un…
2018 was a dark time for the “Merc with a Mouth” (at least he has one in this iteration, although Wolverine: Origins has been referenced before). On the ‘sacred timeline’ The Avengers are assembling t…