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I keep on saying that there’s something in the air in Adelaide. Over the years, the city has become a cultural hotbed for creative folks of all kinds: film, digital media, street art, sports. It’s eve…
Guest Author - Roger Graham VP Master of Science and Technology in Aviation Safety - UNSW, GradDip Safety Science - UNSW, SPQ - UNSW, CPMAIHS, RSP (Aust), ASSP, Dip Emergency Medicine - EMT Over the…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Aussie band Kingswood are rock royalty, having played shows with AC/DC and Th…
There’s a discomfort in Gazer—a subtle yet persistent unease that lingers well after the credits roll. The film begins with an invitation, or rather, a command: “What do you see? Focus.” It's the…
The moment Freaky Tales kicks off, you know you’re in for a ride. It’s 1987 in Oakland, where neon signs flicker, punk music thrashes, and danger lurks in every alleyway. But this isn’t just any ‘80s…
A Working Man certainly requires a lot of work to sit through. Following an ex-black ops agent turned construction worker searching for his boss's kidnapped daughter; director David Ayer reunites…
This letter is not meant as a complaint, but a stark and sobering reality check on what it truly means to be an Australian filmmaker today. I want to pull back the curtain on the perceived glamour sur…
90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…
At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in discussion with Netscout’s Jim McNiel, Werner Herzog made the statement that in the next four and a half thousand years, ‘no computer will make a film as good as…
Alex Scharfman’s debut feature Death of a Unicorn riffs on three main themes: a satire about the venality of the ultra-rich, a hyper-violent creature feature, and a Spielbergian fractured and healed p…
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…