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Roone Arledge: “I know it might not feel like it, but you did a hell of a job.” Geoffrey Mason: “It was a catastrophe.” Tim Fehlbaum’s newsroom drama of underprepared ABC sports reporters at the 197…
In Green Border, director Agnieszka Holland turns a devastating lens on the European refugee crisis, crafting a grim and necessary experience that challenges not only our empathy but our understanding…
Bertrand Bonello has directed one of the most acclaimed films of the year, The Beast. He speaks with Andy Hazel about loneliness, artificial intelligence and his audacious epic that takes in 2014 ince…
Lucy Lawless. If you don’t know who this Kiwi screen legend is, shame on you! The woman repeatedly got to smack Kevin Sorbo on television and became an ideal woman for a generation of straight and que…
One in seven Australians have an understanding of how the hidden illness that is chronic pain impacts their daily life, but for the other six people, it can be hard to get an understanding of what 3.6…
“Based on a True(ish) story.” Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster is a sweet trilled high note curdling into a scream of feminine rage. As anyone who has read or seen a fairytale know, appearances can be d…
PRESS RELEASE Madman Entertainment and Arenamedia have launched the official trailer for MAGIC BEACH, the big screen adaptation of Alison Lester’s beloved children’s book, directed by Robert Connolly…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Imogen McCluskey continues her exploration of suburb…
“This has got to work” Between puffs of a desperate cigarette on a blustering Sunday night in August, Rob Denmam just keeps saying to me “It’s got to work. It just has to.” We’re talking about bring…
Aotearoa-New Zealand is on fire recently with brilliant genre films and debut feature director Sasha Rainbow’s body horror satire Grafted is no exception. Skimping neither on gore, giggles, and righte…
In her new film Dìdi, Chinese American actress and director Joan Chen is receiving the best reviews of her extraordinary career. In the below conversation with Andy Hazel, Joan discusses her work fro…
With the documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, David Hinton is the ostensible director of Martin Scorsese’s intimate and authoritative survey of cinematic titans who for we…