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There is an old Gary Larson Far Side cartoon which has two people standing beside a massive ditch. They have climbing gear on and ready to tackle the ditch. The line at the bottom was ‘because it’s not there’. I was quite young when I read this and didn’t entirely get it at the time. What wasn’t the…
My favourite documentary of all time is Jehane Noujaim's 2004 Control Room. A film about the media’s involvement in the Iraq War in the early 2000's, with special focus on Al Jazeera. It's…
Sicario is the latest thriller from Prisoners and Enemy director, Denis Villeneuve. I mistakenly made the comment on Twitter that he was an ‘up and coming director’ and thankfully someone corrected me…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Like many a white Australian male growing up in the nineties, I liked to think I knew what good rap was. Besides li…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Filmed from the perspective of security cameras in a taxi, Tehran Taxi is the latest non-film from director Jafar P…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. There is a quiet beauty that permeates through every frame of Song of the Sea. Rising from the painterly animation…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. You’ve most likely heard a lot about The Tribe – the worldwide festival favourite that has been scooping up rave re…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The camera moves along an overgrown pathway up to a dark wood door. The door opens slowly, showing off a tall femal…
Yakona is the reason why I attend a festival like the Revelation Film Festival every year. There is every chance in the world that I would have never seen this film if it weren’t for the festival, and…
Station to Station is a celebration of arts in all manner of forms whether it be music, film, photography or something entirely unclassifiable. Following a 4,000 mile train journey across North Americ…
A while ago, I ran a blog called Your Acting's Like the End of the World. Now I have a website it makes some sense to bring some of the 'articles' across to provide a little more content o…
What Lola Wants is a pulpy American road movie through Australian eyes. Starring Sophie Lowe and Beau Knapp, this is Rupert Glasson’s follow up to the enjoyable-enough Coffin Rock. Lowe stars as Lola…