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THE GREENHOUSE will premiere on Netflix on February 16. Very few of us are lucky enough (or stubborn enough) to be able to think about the death of someone we loved and not feel some regret about how…
There was an absolute and iron-clad system in the film capital in the 1940s and 1950s which, it seems to me, had its primary purpose to exclude females – Ida Lupino She wasn’t wrong. It’s hardly an e…
The Mardi Gras Film Festival returns this February with an array of fictional and documentary features and shorts, over a hundred all up. This year’s theme is the queer frontier, honouring our queer e…
The human relationship with food is such a complicated thing. Some cultures and families bond over food, have their best times around the dinner table with or without financial stability. Some familie…
The unstoppable Vonne Patiag returns with part two of a deep dive discussion about his work in the Australia arts scene with Nisha-Anne. In this part, Vonne talks about how the highly acclaimed new an…
Here Out West will be available in cinemas February 3 and will air on ABC later this year. There's a thrill that goes through the heart of a Sydneysider when this most beloved infuriating city ap…
Vonne Patiag is unstoppable. His 2018 short film Tomgirl about Filipino queer identity played film festivals around the world, was shortlisted in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, got him into the Insi…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. You know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe – I mean, shipwrecked among eight million…
Or maybe they all do. In which case I respect your right to grinch out. Personally, I’m a sucker for a Christmas movie that strikes that ineffable chord progression of cynicism to unironic sentiment.…
The Jan Doyle Band refuses to be trapped. The underground Sheffield-based act swerves from darkwave to industrial goth to electro punk, with a live act of defiant flamboyance. There has on occasion be…
Please note that due to the ongoing boycott of the Sydney Festival due to their acceptance of money from Israeli funding, the performance of Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner will no longer be per…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's film, Memory Box, about intergenerational trauma could have been an abso…