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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…
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…
No words on a screen make me happier than “Written And Directed By Preston Sturges.” In 1939, he became the first ever Hollywood screenwriter to step into the role of director, paving the way for your…
For nineties kids, Eric Bana will be forever known as the revhead, mullet wearing, car loving bogan, Poida, or the kickboxing loving boyfriend in The Castle. For folks around the world, he might be kn…
It is September, 2018. I have just completed my course at Edith Cowan University. I have acquired double Bachelors Degrees in Communications and Arts. The day is nice. It takes me back to the day I fi…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. For a film whose primary antagonist appears only in reflection, the clumsily executed Jordan Peele produced horror,…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Every so often the Academy Awards get it right, and for the 16th Best Picture winner they chose one of the great…
We love supporting short films here at The Curb, and one of the better ones of this year is the Perth made short film, The World of Riley. Made with the help of the City of Vincent and Revelation Film…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Language Lessons is screening as the closing film of MIFF 2021, available to stream until 11.59pm EST Sunday 22 August. Depending on your…
We are still in “AUSgust” and I have been progressively trying to watch one Australian movie per day for every day of the month. The experience has been interesting, as our cinema can range from Alvi…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Written and directed by Lisa Joy (co-creator of HBO/Showcase’s Westworld), Reminiscence stars Hugh Jackman as Nick…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The air of familiarity – quite literally – bursts in the air in the opening of the low-fi, low-budget Dry Winter, as a night in a remote,…