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Oh, Canada marks a change of pace for Paul Schrader following the completion of his Man in a Room trilogy (First Reformed, The Card Counter, The Master Gardener). Still, it isn’t difficult to see what…
The women sit sweltering on the beach with their burkas black and shrouding. Only metres away the men swim and laugh. Under the robes are dangerous objects: guns and bare legs that long to stand in th…
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
In the sun-dappled town of Ushimado, a small revolution is unfolding—one that takes place not in bustling streets or grand arenas, but in the quiet corners of a sacred shrine. Kazuhiro Soda’s The Cats…
When it comes to outlining the plot or character traits of Jellyfish, the feature debut from West Aussie based filmmaker Giles Chan, it’s hard to escape critically applied terms such as ‘slacker’ or ‘…
Combining the writer of Goodfellas, the director of Bugsy, and starring Robert De Niro twice, The Alto Knights, based on the relationship between two New York Mafioso - Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vi…
In a world overwhelmed by climate change, where resources grow scarcer and humanity has long ago abandoned the open skies, The Assessment dares to ask the question: What does it mean to bring life int…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. In 2024, director Natalie Bailey and writer Lou Sanz unleashed Audrey onto au…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. At just twenty years old, transgender wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay has crafte…
An unbelievable $320 million USD is reportedly how much the Netflix Russo brother’s streaming title The Electric State cost. It’s expensive in the manner that a Chanel boomerang is expensive: a produc…
Though an impressive headline pairing alone ought to make James Ashcroft's The Rule of Jenny Pen appointment viewing, this unusually thoughtful genre exercise’s comment on tyranny and the absurdit…
Agnieszka Holland has always led a political life. She has witnessed the impact of multiple occupations and dictatorial regimes. She was present for the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. She is consider…