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Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, Donne-moi un Titre) is a sweet and imaginative film about the intersection of art and parenthood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry combines a s…
“You look at film history and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre needs to be up there as one of the greatest films ever made.” - Alexandre O. Philippe. Alexandre O. Philippe makes documentaries that absorb…
There’s something quietly shattering about GEN_, something that lodges under your skin and hums there for days. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, this deeply intimate documentary slips past rhetoric and…
New Year’s Eve 1999 and anaesthetist Minnie (Emily Browning) starts her day with a reminder that she’s not got her life together in the manner she thought she would have. Her patient in obstetrics tur…
Exit 8 is an inventive and repetitive exercise in expanding what was once a simple video game into a character-driven psychological horror. Based on the 2023 adventure game The Exit 8 by developer Kot…
First Light is an astonishing debut feature from acclaimed Australian photographer James J. Robinson, and a film perfectly placed in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Bright Horizons competi…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. If we consider who some of the great modern Aussie cinematographers are, we i…
She Rides Shotgun isn’t your typical action thriller, and thank god for that. It’s not flashy or overstuffed with gunfire just for the sake of spectacle. Instead, it’s grounded — raw, even — and it hi…
There’s a special kind of horror that doesn’t scream or slash—it creeps up on you in the form of unchecked ambition, of algorithms, of the unshakable feeling that someone’s always watching. Kiyoshi Ku…
There’s a lovely weirdness to Albert Birney’s films. Strawberry Mansion imagined a near future world where dreams were audited: which sounds like a horror film, but in actuality became a masterpiece o…
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With thanks to Kismet Film, the Curb has three double passes to see MR BURTON, an ode to the life and career of the great Richard Burton. Before the fame. Before the legend. There was a teacher who s…