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Writer/director Jordan Peele made one of the best horror films of the 21st century with his excoriating debut Get Out in 2017. Fearless and uncompromising in its vision to create a genre driven social…
Nadine Whitney is a Rotten Tomatoes accredited critic, the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, a member of OFCS, GALECA, AWFJ, and an occasional festival judge. She often wishes she was a spoiled cat.
Writer/director Jordan Peele made one of the best horror films of the 21st century with his excoriating debut Get Out in 2017. Fearless and uncompromising in its vision to create a genre driven social…
Thomas M. Wright is quickly becoming the Australian master of cinematic discomfort. In his debut film 2018’s Acute Misfortune he created an indelible film about the Australian artist Adam Cullen and h…
Quake screens at the 2022 Scandinavian Film Festival. Visit the website for screening details. Based on the 2015 novel ‘Grand Mal’ by Auður Jónsdóttir, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir’s film Quake is part family…
John Michael McDonagh, director of the superb drama Calvary, returns to his themes of hypocrisy and excess in his latest and most expensive feature, The Forgiven. Set in Morocco instead of his native…
Argentinian directing duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat take no prisoners in their biting and comical film industry satire, Official Competition. Even the film’s title belies the levels of irony they…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. After a brief foray into the MCU, director Scott Derrickson is back to doing what he doe…
Peter Strickland is a distinct director whose works can equally alienate and seduce. In his latest effort Flux Gourmet Strickland has lost none of his polarising energy yet has created perhaps his mos…
Clio Barnard’s exceptional social realist romance Ali & Ava is a testament to finding joy. Set in Bradford in Yorkshire, a working-class city that Barnard refuses to treat as a place of doldrums,…
All films in the Jurassic collection feature a mixture of a few key elements: scientific hubris, corporate/capitalist malfeasance, a kid (or two) in trouble, and lots of dinosaurs. Colin Trevorrow’s l…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Liverpudlian director Terence Davies once again turns his intimate filmmaking focus to i…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Alex Garland’s Men is likely to be a deeply divisive film. Garland’s refusal to neatly s…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. In 1986 director Tony Scott made Top Gun, a film that changed the landscape of military…