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1943 Best Picture Nominee: The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman) - Awards Don't Matter

1943 Best Picture Nominee: The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman) - Awards Don't Matter

Andrew F Peirce Sep 7, 2021 1 min read
Podcasts Academy Awards Best Picture Discussions Henry Fonda The Ox-Bow Incident William A. Wellman

Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Subscribe via: RSS Feed // Spotify // Apple Podcasts // Google Podcasts // Pocket Casts While the 16th Best Pictur…

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I'm Wanita Review - A Full-Throated Celebration of a Unknown Legend

I'm Wanita Review - A Full-Throated Celebration of a Unknown Legend

Andrew F Peirce Sep 6, 2021 6 min read
Films Reviews australian documentary documentary Im Wanita Matthew Walker music Review Wanita

Kasey Chambers. Lee Kernigan. Slim Dusty. Wanita. These are the many faces of Australian country music, a genre that has changed over the decades. Figurehead after figurehead has emerged, breaking in…

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Disclosure Review -  Michael Bentham’s Debut Heralds an Emerging Voice in Australian Cinema With This Complex Drama

Disclosure Review - Michael Bentham’s Debut Heralds an Emerging Voice in Australian Cinema With This Complex Drama

Nadine Whitney Sep 4, 2021 2 min read
Films Reviews australian film Disclosure Geraldine Hakewill Mark Leonard Winter Matilda Ridgway Michael Bentham Review

Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Writer/director Michael Bentham’s first film Disclosure centres around two couples who come together to deal with the repercussions of a po…

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Shiva Baby Review - A Claustrophobic and Sophisticated Feature Debut from Emma Seligman

Shiva Baby Review - A Claustrophobic and Sophisticated Feature Debut from Emma Seligman

Digby Houghton Sep 4, 2021 3 min read
Films Reviews Comedy Danny Deferrari Drama Emma Seligman Polly Draper Rachel Sennott Review shiva baby

Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Wakes aren’t often considered places of riveting angst or harrowing self-obsession, quite the opposite. However, Em…

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Perth Made Film, Good For Nothing Blues, to Have Encore Screening After Jam Packed Premiere

Press Releases Sep 4, 2021 1 min read
Articles australian cinema Good for Nothing Blues Perth

After a jam packed premiere screening, Perth made film Good for Nothing Blues is having an encore screening at Luna Leederville on Sunday September 12th at 6:30pm. Pick up tickets here. Check out the…

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Alex von Hofmann’s Horror/Thriller Short Film ‘Evie’ Selected for SITGES and FILMQUEST Film Festivals!

Press Releases Sep 4, 2021 1 min read
Articles australian cinema Evie short film

Short film ‘EVIE’ will have its world premiere at the 54th Edition SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, followed closely by its North American premiere at FILMQUEST - in Utah,…

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Bobby Cannavale and Vincent D’Onofrio Join the Cast of Australian Sketch Comedy Series, The Moth Effect

Andrew F Peirce Sep 3, 2021 3 min read
Articles The Moth Effect

Produced by Bunya Entertainment and Amazon Studios, The Moth Effect’s final episode will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video The Moth Effect, the daft and joyous journey into comedy satire tha…

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Shooting Wraps in Western Australia on World War I Epic Before Dawn

Press Releases Sep 1, 2021 2 min read
Articles australian cinema War Western Australia

Prince-Wright Productions has wrapped principal photography in Western Australia with a stellar Australian cast. The World War I feature film Before Dawn will bring to the big screen the untold story…

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Candyman Spoiler Review - Nia DaCosta Delivers a Powerful Vision of Modern Horror

Candyman Spoiler Review - Nia DaCosta Delivers a Powerful Vision of Modern Horror

Christopher John Aug 31, 2021 10 min read
Films Reviews Colman Domingo film horror Jordan Peele movies Nia DaCosta Philip Glass Review Teyonah Parris Tony Todd Yahya Abdul Mateen II

Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Operating on a similar level to 2018’s Halloween and 2019’s Doctor Sleep, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman acts as a direct s…

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Lakesedge Author Lyndall Clipstone Talks About Gothic Romance, World Building and First Novels in This Interview

Lakesedge Author Lyndall Clipstone Talks About Gothic Romance, World Building and First Novels in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Aug 31, 2021 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts Discussions gothic romance Interview Lakesedge Lyndall Clipstone podcast

Subscribe and listen to previous episodes via the Auscast Network here. Lakesedge is the debut novel from Australian author Lyndall Clipstone, and it's a great one. Steeped in gothic romance and…

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Go to Hell!! Review - A Trippy Underground Animated Adventure Through Space, Religion, Capitalism, and Time

Go to Hell!! Review - A Trippy Underground Animated Adventure Through Space, Religion, Capitalism, and Time

Andrew F Peirce Aug 29, 2021 6 min read
Films Reviews Animation Go to Hell Ray Nowland Review

Content Warning: This review contains discussions of sexual assault. In the nineties, if you wanted your fill of underground entertainment, then you’d slip on SBS on a late Saturday night. Amidst the…

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Strong Female Lead Review - A Horrifying Slice of Misogynistic Australia and Its Eternal Lifeforce in Politics

Strong Female Lead Review - A Horrifying Slice of Misogynistic Australia and Its Eternal Lifeforce in Politics

Andrew F Peirce Aug 29, 2021 5 min read
Films Reviews AACTA Awards documentary Julia Gillard Karina Holden politics Review Strong Female Lead Tosca Looby

Documentaries are often made in the editing room, where the point of view and directorial intentions are honed, finessed and corralled into the final product that we call a ‘complete movie’. In the ca…

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