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Fantasia Festival Flies Again with its 29th Edition

Fantasia Festival Flies Again with its 29th Edition

Nadine Whitney Jun 24, 2025 2 min read
Articles Fantasia Festival

The Montreal based Fantasia Festival is opening its portals to the strange, beguiling, and deliciously macabre. The festival plays between July 16 to August 3 and is a brilliant chance to see vital ne…

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How The Mystery Moose birthed William Preat and Knight Mitchell’s collective Acrozora

How The Mystery Moose birthed William Preat and Knight Mitchell’s collective Acrozora

Guest Author Jun 23, 2025 2 min read
Articles Guest Post Knight Mitchell The Mystery Moose William Preat

The Mystery Moose is a 40-minute mockumentary following an "aspiring" influencer and his friend in search of the elusive and possibly extinct Fiordland Moose. Going into the rugged wildernes…

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Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later shows a dystopian Arcadia that is both clever and confounding

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later shows a dystopian Arcadia that is both clever and confounding

Nadine Whitney Jun 20, 2025 5 min read
Films Reviews Danny Boyle horror Review

Two key psychological moments in Danny Boyle’s 2002 masterpiece 28 Days Later happens when Jim (Cillian Murphy), Selena (Naomie Harris), and Hannah (Megan Burns) finally reach the compound of survivor…

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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life | The Materialists

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life | The Materialists

Nadine Whitney Jun 19, 2025 1 min read
Podcasts Reviews Drama Jane Austen Wrecked My Life podcast Review The Materialists

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Nadine Whitney gets her life thrown upside down with Jane Austen Wrecked My L…

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Harley Hefford and Luke Thomas on embedding creativity into Collingwood with Trainscendence

Harley Hefford and Luke Thomas on embedding creativity into Collingwood with Trainscendence

Andrew F Peirce Jun 19, 2025 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts Interview Trainscendence

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Harley Hefford and Luke Thomas are two thirtysomething Naarm-Melbourne based…

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S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary is a fascinating document of a human who tried to be a vessel for something more than human

S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary is a fascinating document of a human who tried to be a vessel for something more than human

Nadine Whitney Jun 16, 2025 6 min read
Films Reviews documentary Genesis P-Orridge Revelation Film Festival Review

What does magick mean to you? It’s the sum total of my life. “Gen’s most provocative work was unconditional love” – David Jay. Brion Gyson’s Dream Machine spins and Genesis P-Orridge begins to narr…

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90s All Over Me Part 9: 1997 – From Absolute Power to The Winter Guest

90s All Over Me Part 9: 1997 – From Absolute Power to The Winter Guest

BD Kooyman Jun 16, 2025 24 min read
Uncategorized

90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…

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The Shrouds Luna Leederville Preview Screening Giveaway

The Shrouds Luna Leederville Preview Screening Giveaway

Andrew F Peirce Jun 12, 2025 1 min read
Articles Giveaway The Shrouds

With thanks to Luna Palace Cinemas Leederville, we have ten double passes to see David Cronenberg's latest film The Shrouds at an exclusive preview screening on the morning of Saturday 21 June 202…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Gabrielle Brady on the art of liberating the viewer's gaze in The Wolves Always Come at Night

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Gabrielle Brady on the art of liberating the viewer's gaze in The Wolves Always Come at Night

Andrew F Peirce Jun 11, 2025 4 min read
Interviews Podcasts

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. The art of co-authored filmmaking is being finessed and perfected within the…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: The Raftsmen director Chadden Hunter on capturing a classic adventure story on screen

Sydney Film Festival Interview: The Raftsmen director Chadden Hunter on capturing a classic adventure story on screen

Andrew F Peirce Jun 11, 2025 19 min read
Interviews australian film documentary Interview Sydney Film Festival The Raftsmen

Vital Alsar was an adventurer and a scientist. In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, after being inspired by the attempted journey of the Kon-Tiki by fellow sailor Thor Heyerdahl, Vital led an e…

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Sydney Film Festival Interview: Zoe Pepper on the dark housing-crisis comedy delight that is Birthright

Sydney Film Festival Interview: Zoe Pepper on the dark housing-crisis comedy delight that is Birthright

Andrew F Peirce Jun 10, 2025 3 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian cinema australian film Comedy Interview Sydney Film Festival

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. When we think of Australian cinema, one of the films that springs to mind is…

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St Kilda Film Festival Interview: Archie Hancock & Jack Zimmerman on giving space to unsaid stories in The 'Conversation'

St Kilda Film Festival Interview: Archie Hancock & Jack Zimmerman on giving space to unsaid stories in The 'Conversation'

Andrew F Peirce Jun 6, 2025 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian cinema documentary Interview Jack Zimmerman st Kilda Film Festival The Conversation

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Judith Hancock has always felt that was different from her siblings. Having s…

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