This Life of Mine is a small delight of a film
French writer, actor, and director Sophie Fillières tackles the frustrations of middle-age and gendered invisibility in her curious dramedy This Life of Mine. It’s important to note that Sophie Filliè…
Audrey Diwan's Emmanuelle is more neurotic than erotic
Audrey Diwan’s reimagining of Emmanuelle is dull, muddled, and more neurotic than erotic. The Hong Kong set film searches for steam and neon in Wong Kar-wai’s Chunking Mansions and stages a typhoon to…
Borderline is a riotous odyssey of dark humour and unhinged mayhem
Jimmy Warden made a name for himself with Cocaine Bear, a film so outrageous it had audiences both laughing and recoiling in shock. Now, he’s taking the helm as director with Borderline, a dark comedy…
Zachary Ruane and Alexei Toliopoulos on becoming David Stratton & Margaret Pomeranz for their comedy show Refused Classification
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. For decades, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz were Australian film review…
90s All Over Me Part 3: 1991 – From The Addams Family to V.I. Warshawski
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…
Alliance Française French Film Festival Reviews: Bolero & Miss Violet
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. This podcast is recorded in Naarm, Victoria with critic Nadine Whitney review…
Carmen & Bolude stars Michela Carattini and Bolude Watson on the joy of dance on film
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Carmen & Bolude marks something of a first for Australian films. Here is…
Opening up the NFSA to interrogation with the new SBS series Australia: An Unofficial History
With their new three-part series Australia: An Unofficial History, SBS have cracked open the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) vault and brought forth the long forgotten Australian government fil…
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu: On being dangerous in dangerous times
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu is an actor, writer, and director from Aotearoa. We Were Dangerous starring Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall, and the great Rima Te Wiata was her debut feature and w…
Hard Truths is another must see Mike Leigh event film
“You don’t know my suffering. You don’t know my pain… I’m not a well woman.” – Pansy Although I imagine the great social realist Mike Leigh would be horrified, while I was watching Marianne Jean-Bapt…
Mickey 17 is a consistently engaging and absurd minor work for Bong Joon-ho
South Korean maestro Bong Joon-ho doesn’t hold out much hope for humanity in general. From his first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite in 2000 through to his masterwork Parasite his recurring themes are…
My Melbourne Producer Mitu Bhowmick Lange on bringing the diversity of Naarm to life on screen
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. My Melbourne is a powerful and uplifting new collaborative feature made with…