Film and culture. Not content.
Nadine Whitney and Andrew F Peirce put their heads together and come up with some unmissable films at the upcoming 2025 Sydney Film Festival. The Sydney Film Festival runs from 4 to 15 June 2025, tak…
If you had the power to change your ethnicity, would you? That is the question filmmaker Amy Wang poses in her debut feature, Slanted. She introduces us to Joan Huang [Shirley Chen], a Chinese Ameri…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Chad Freidrichs is a documentarian who has crafted a filmography built with a…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Take a moment to think about the last time you saw in a film a man write anot…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Matthew Rankin is a Canadian filmmaker who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Isabella Tree is a noted conservationist and the author of the acclaimed book…
With thanks to Transmission Films, we have five double passes to see The Great Lillian Hall, a film starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Jesse Williams, Lily Rabe and Pierce Brosnan, opening nationall…
Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati and Ila Firouzabadi’s Universal Language blends absurdist comedy, childlike wonder and alternative history into a cultural melting pot worth digging into. Offering a ten…
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…
So here we are, almost a round thirty years since Tom Cruise redefined cinematic action with Mission: Impossible by fighting a helicopter with a train in a tunnel. That franchise spawning creation was…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Nadine Whitney had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Karan Kandhari and…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Genevieve Bailey is a documentarian who has drawn attention to the impact of…