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A cab ride conversation between two friends ignites a love triangle. A callow young undergraduate sends his older lover to enact revenge on a professor who failed him. A case of mistaken identity allo…
With over 40 documentaries to her name, it’s clear that like Aboriginal filmmaker, Bill Onus, Lilias Fraser is a legend in her own right who has been forgotten by time and the history books. Cinematog…
Gabriel Shipton is the producer of Ben Lawrence’s Ithaka. He is also the son of the films subject, John Shipton, and brother of the figure at the center of the film: Julian Assange. Filmed during 201…
James Vaughan’s directorial debut Friends and Strangers has been immediately embraced by the international film community, with the film receiving nominations for Best New Film at the Beijing Internat…
Ablaze is the essential documentary about Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri filmmaker Bill Onus and the untold history of his work in Australian film. Lost films and hidden history are rediscovered and brough…
I’d wager that almost everyone remembers the first time they saw Nicolas Cage on screen for the first time. For me it was Martha Coolidge’s 1983 romantic comedy Valley Girl. I don’t remember the femal…
Although director Audrey Diwan’s magnificent film Happening is set in France in 1963, the story of a woman trying to regain her life in the face of an unwanted pregnancy has a timeless feel to it. For…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. It’s not difficult to see Dasvi, the latest Maddock Films production, as a response to t…
As Kenji says on Iron Chef, ‘bang a gong, we are on’. It’s election time folks. To help get you into the election campaign mood, here are five documentaries that focus on aspects of Australian polit…
It’s no secret that, like a lot of the Aussie film community, we at The Curb are very fond of Ben Mendelsohn. From his onscreen intensity and vulnerability to his offscreen shenanigans with meat pies…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Sony’s latest foray into antihero fodder, the Jared Leto lead vampire-actioner Morbius,…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. In 2022, the idea of the multiverse seems like a high concept of days gone. Audiences ha…