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Directed by Marielle Heller, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood stars Matthew Rhys as journalist Lloyd Vogel who’s assigned to write a puff piece on beloved television host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks). L…
We’re all big fans of Australian cinema here at The Curb, and given I’m based in WA, I’m particularly fond of West Aussie made films. Which is part of the reason why I’m so excited about the line-up a…
An upbeat crowd eagerly awaited the go ahead to secure their seat in the West Australian Spiegeltent tent ahead of Perth’s opening performance of A Simple Space byGravity and Other Myths. A hefty repu…
On January 20th, 2020 Netflix made the announcement to the world that they had acquired exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the Studio Ghibli film library – unless you lived in Canada, Japan or th…
I finally managed to see 1917, in a double war film effort, that also encompassed the latest release of the two, Midway. I don’t really need to go into 1917, as it’s been the talk of the town for the…
Little Women is equal parts endearing and poignant, prepare to get sucked into the eloquence of art and quaintness of life of the mid 1800’s and into the lives of March girls (and be prepared not to w…
Actor / playwright Jesse Eisenberg’s play The Spoils is making its Australian debut at The Flight Path Theatre in Marrickville at the end of the month. The Spoils is an acerbic comedy about millennia…
The lengths taken by Nazi forces during World War II to forcibly enlist Austrian townspeople is depicted with heart-rending intensity in Terrence Malick’s latest historical drama, A Hidden Life. Base…
“One of the best films of 2019...it’s immediately clear that Lucy Coleman is one of the most exciting new voices in Australian cinema.” The Curb “Hot Mess was inspired by my own head spin of a crisis…
I am going to start by adding to some extra context to what I am going to write. Because I found Just Mercy to be not only extremely powerful, but also emotional. I decided that I was going to review…
Growing up in Australia in the mid-'90s, you were hard-pressed to find children's entertainment that didn't focus on brawling anime monsters or anthropomorphic bananas. That is where a be…
Written and directed by Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbitstars Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo, a lonely German boy living during the end of World War II and whose world view is turned upside down when he discov…