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While many critics wish to celebrate the artistic side of film, it is, and always has been, a business. For businesses to survive and thrive, they need to innovate. They need to find new ways of getti…
Filmmaker Ben Lawrence showed an affinity for damaged people with his acclaimed documentary, Ghosthunter, and that empathy for injury and vulnerability carries over to his first fiction feature, Heart…
Musical theatre fans in Perth are used to patiently waiting their turn. Two years after it was first performed in Sydney and eight years since it first appeared on Broadway, The Book of Mormon finall…
When I watched Suburban Wildlife, about half an hour into it I knew that this was exactly my kind of film. It's a wonderfully written, intimately directed, and superbly acted film that exists than…
At a recent social event, I found myself amongst a group of relative strangers. Somehow the conversation weaved itself to the question of what we would like to do before we die. A fairly innocuous que…
Another year, another International Podcast Day. As with last year, we're here to help celebrate the day by suggesting five great shows that you need in your ears. Unlike last years line-up, these…
From big-budget action blockbusters, to razor sharp female-led comedy and edge-of-your seat thrillers, the Russian Resurrection Film Festival is proud to be returning down-under in 2019, bringing with…
Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable single white guy who is shaped by society into becoming yet another version of the Joker, a comic book villain that has existed for almost eight…
In Standing Up for Sunny, RJ Mitte stars as Travis, a socially isolated, perennially grumpy, guy living with cerebral palsy. He has a major gripe with the world: the fact that there are other people i…
The horror genre has had a healthy revitalization over the last few years, anchored by the likes of James Wan’s Conjuring franchise or the current indulgence of Stephen King properties, particularly b…
Travis Akbar has been a writer for The Curb for over a year now, and since kicking off on this here site, he's gone and written some brilliant work for IndigenousX and SBS. Travis also runs a Face…
I found watching Dora and the Lost City of Gold to be quite an ironic experience. See, my 2-year-old daughter Wynter had been absolutely obsessed with the cartoon for almost 12 months before she decid…