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Pivot Pictures is excited to announce the release of the Australian romantic comedy LOVE YOU LIKE THAT, bringing smiles back into cinemas from 21 October (Melbourne will release once cinemas open). B…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Phenomenology speculates on how and why humans feel the world in the way we do leading to a philosophical understan…
In a way, Buster Keaton is the essence of movies. He is one of the inventors of cinema. Werner Herzog, The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) [Buster Keaton is] the biggest inspiration [of] my whole…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Strong Female Lead is a powerful documentary about the Julia Gillard government and the systemic attacks of misogyn…
Over the 2019/2020 Australian summer period, the world witnessed some of the worst and most devastating bushfires in modern history. A billion animals died in a traumatic event that the nation is stil…
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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, I finally got around to watching Lantana. Released in 2001, this is a tragi-romance which surrounds an ensemble of couples whose relationships are either withering or dead. The pandemic taught me not to desire touch or seek intimacy, as we were mandated by t…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. From Malory Towers to St Trinian’s, a girls boarding school is always a rich setting for stories of female friendsh…
Readers are advised that this article contains the names of Aboriginal people who have died. There’s a certain level of expectation that comes with true crime documentaries. With the echo of the tone…
As World War Two wraps up, we ease out of one of the worst events of modern humankind with one of the most charming and inconsequential Best Picture winners yet, Leo McCarey's Going My Way. Bing Crosby won Best Actor, and dual nominee for the same role, Barry Fitzgerald won Best Supporting Actor, bo…
Long term friend and colleague of Heath Ledger, director Gregor Jordan named Patron Australians in Film today announced the stellar line up of Australian and international leaders in the entertainmen…
The Queer Screen Film Festival has always held a soft spot in my heart. In 2006, my friend Loren and I decided that we would each choose a film from that year’s QueerDoc program, and the other person…