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Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Lorcan Finnegan's wild and weird trip-fest flick The Surfer is one that&#…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Jacob Richardson's feature film debut The Aegean sees the Queensland base…
The Surfer opens with a tense, slow buildup, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was watching a sloth move in slow motion rather than anything that kept me at the edge of my seat. The premise has pote…
Ina Weisse’s psychological drama Zikaden (Cicadas) begins as a portrait of two very different women at the edge of their patience with the demands that claim their sense of self but ends as something…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. With her essential website Infinite-Women.com, Allison Tyra has built a deep…
Released in fairly quick succession this year have been two distinct “throwback” mainstream slashers. Hell of a Summer and Clown in a Cornfield. The two movies also come on the heels of Josh Ruben’s r…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Kelly Schilling's feature debut film With or Without You is the powerful…
When it comes to horror, I’ve always believed the best films work on more than one level—they’re terrifying, yes, but also smart, layered, and maybe even a little cheeky. Clown in a Cornfield is exact…
When the 2024 Cannes Film Festival lineup dropped, one film in particular sent shockwaves across the internet: The Surfer, an Australian-set psychological thriller starring Nicolas Cage. Director Lorc…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. One of the more exciting news points in recent weeks has been the announcemen…
Ryan Coogler's Sinners is a Southern Gothic fable that combines music, history, religion, and horror: building into an imaginative, cinematic eruption. Set in 1932 in rural Mississippi, the film f…
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…