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“Who are you son to?” That’s the question at the heart of director Claudio Noce’s semi-autobiographical Padrenostro. It’s an exploration of a father-son relationship, filtered through a coming of age…
Melbourne International Film Festival are thrilled to reveal the inaugural XR Commission, which will have its world premiere on the MIFF XR platform alongside world-renowned XR programming in 2022. MI…
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On the fourth day of LFF is Palme d’Or winning Titane, and two films exploring the tragedy of mass shootings from very different angles, Fran Kranz’s Mass, and Justin Kurzel’s Nitram. Titane (dir. J…
Say Yes Again (Zai shuo yi ci wo yuan yi) follows Luke as he embarks upon the task of proposing to his girlfriend Cai. However, the beauty of the film comes from him reliving this event again and agai…
If you had told thirteen-year old me clutching a battered copy of Asimov’s short stories that there would be whole festivals devoted to science fiction films in my future, I would have stared at you f…
AFI Award winning director Bruce Beresford has a career that ducks and swerves through different genres, from the Ozploitation flick, Money Movers, to war drama, Breaker Morant, to the Best Picture wi…
LFF day three and Mark Cousins takes a look at the 21st Century filmmakers pushing the artform to new limits in The Story of Film: A New Generation, Alice Krige’s discovery of witches in the Scottish…
On day two of LFF its Wes Anderson’s latest bit of fluff The French Dispatch, Ana-Lily Amirpour’s anarchic sci-fi banger Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon and Rebecca Hall’s astonishing directorial debut P…
Presented by Palace, the British Film Festival’s full programme has been revealed, celebrating the best of British in a remarkable line up of 31 films, a number of which are screening for the first ti…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Aussie filmmaker Josephine Croft…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. My Cherry Pie is one of the bril…