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Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Ashley Davies will be heading to Perth's Backlot Cinema on 11 May 2025 to…
This review contains spoilers for Vulcanizadora and Buzzard. Vulcanizadora is a gnarly word, one that–out of context–suggests a fury of rage and violence at the centre of a chaos of noise, conjuring…
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Miki Magasiva’s feature film debut Tinā is based on a true story. Sure, elements are pulled from truth, with Magasiva utilising the tragedy of the 2011 Christchurch…
Some films don’t just unfold—they breathe. The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s latest offering, is one of those rare works that moves with the quiet rhythm of something deeply sacred. Set against the sun-…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Lars and the Real Girl is Craig Gillespie's 2007 indie comedy-drama about…
It reminded me of a summer I once spent by the French seaside, lying on warm sand with a book in hand, the waves whispering nearby, the sun soft and golden overhead. There’s a similar stillness here,…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Before commencing her career as a filmmaker, Jane Larkin was an Australian re…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Andres Veiel's latest documentary, Riefenstahl, delves into the dark and…
The Accountant 2 is a mishmash of tone that has surplus of entertaining laughs but a deficit of consistency and genre coherence. The action thriller is a direct sequel to 2016's The Accountant, in…
This is the feature film debut of writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt—and what a stellar debut it is. Taking inspiration from the grim origins of Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister spins a haunting, he…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Saskia Archer is an actor on the rise. From the streets of Sydney, to the tur…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Eli Craig smashed onto the slasher scene with his genre-defying comedy event…