Eddie Peng on Man and Beast in Black Dog
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
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.
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
Combining the writer of Goodfellas, the director of Bugsy, and starring Robert De Niro twice, The Alto Knights, based on the relationship between two New York Mafioso - Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vi…
An unbelievable $320 million USD is reportedly how much the Netflix Russo brother’s streaming title The Electric State cost. It’s expensive in the manner that a Chanel boomerang is expensive: a produc…
Agnieszka Holland has always led a political life. She has witnessed the impact of multiple occupations and dictatorial regimes. She was present for the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. She is consider…
Saïd Belktibia’s suburban Paris set contemporary “witchcraft” thriller Hood Witch starring Golshifteh Farahani as the desperately broke single mother Nour who takes to smuggling restricted animals fro…
French writer, actor, and director Sophie Fillières tackles the frustrations of middle-age and gendered invisibility in her curious dramedy This Life of Mine. It’s important to note that Sophie Filliè…
Audrey Diwan’s reimagining of Emmanuelle is dull, muddled, and more neurotic than erotic. The Hong Kong set film searches for steam and neon in Wong Kar-wai’s Chunking Mansions and stages a typhoon to…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. This podcast is recorded in Naarm, Victoria with critic Nadine Whitney review…
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu is an actor, writer, and director from Aotearoa. We Were Dangerous starring Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall, and the great Rima Te Wiata was her debut feature and w…
“You don’t know my suffering. You don’t know my pain… I’m not a well woman.” – Pansy Although I imagine the great social realist Mike Leigh would be horrified, while I was watching Marianne Jean-Bapt…
South Korean maestro Bong Joon-ho doesn’t hold out much hope for humanity in general. From his first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite in 2000 through to his masterwork Parasite his recurring themes are…
The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) keeps growing and expanding the opportunities to discuss and spotlight women and gender diverse filmmakers and creators. 2025 promises to deliver a wonderfu…