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Lars and the Real Girl Umbrella Entertainment Blu-Ray Collectors Edition Review

Lars and the Real Girl Umbrella Entertainment Blu-Ray Collectors Edition Review

Nadine Whitney Apr 30, 2025 1 min read
Podcasts Reviews Craig Gillespie Lars and the Real Girl podcast Review Ryan Gosling Umbrella Entertainment

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Lars and the Real Girl is Craig Gillespie's 2007 indie comedy-drama about…

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Bonjour Tristesse: Where the Sun Shines Softly on Sadness

Bonjour Tristesse: Where the Sun Shines Softly on Sadness

Codie Allen Apr 29, 2025 4 min read
Films Reviews Chloë Sevigny Drama Durga Chew-Bose Lily McInerny Review

It reminded me of a summer I once spent by the French seaside, lying on warm sand with a book in hand, the waves whispering nearby, the sun soft and golden overhead. There’s a similar stillness here,…

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Gold Coast Film Festival: Jane Larkin on the lived-in perspective of her elite sports drama The Edge

Gold Coast Film Festival: Jane Larkin on the lived-in perspective of her elite sports drama The Edge

Andrew F Peirce Apr 29, 2025 3 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film Drama Gold Coast Film Festival Interview Jane Larkin The Edge

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Before commencing her career as a filmmaker, Jane Larkin was an Australian re…

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German Film Festival: Andres Veiel on the urgency of his new documentary Riefenstahl

German Film Festival: Andres Veiel on the urgency of his new documentary Riefenstahl

Andrew F Peirce Apr 28, 2025 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts documentary German Film Festival Interview Riefenstahl

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Andres Veiel's latest documentary, Riefenstahl, delves into the dark and…

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The Accountant 2 improves on the original, but Ben Affleck's ledger still needs balancing

The Accountant 2 improves on the original, but Ben Affleck's ledger still needs balancing

Kahn Duncan Apr 24, 2025 4 min read
Films Reviews Cynthia Addai-Robinson Gavin O'Connor jon bernthal Review The Accountant 2

The Accountant 2 is a mishmash of tone that has surplus of entertaining laughs but a deficit of consistency and genre coherence. The action thriller is a direct sequel to 2016's The Accountant, in…

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The Ugly Stepsister Delivers a Visceral, Feminist Horror That Lays Bare the Brutality of Beauty

The Ugly Stepsister Delivers a Visceral, Feminist Horror That Lays Bare the Brutality of Beauty

Codie Allen Apr 24, 2025 3 min read
Films Reviews Emilie Blichfeldt horror Review Shudder The Ugly Stepsister

This is the feature film debut of writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt—and what a stellar debut it is. Taking inspiration from the grim origins of Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister spins a haunting, he…

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Saskia Archer on building a foundation of empathy in her acting

Saskia Archer on building a foundation of empathy in her acting

Andrew F Peirce Apr 24, 2025 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film Interview podcast Saskia Archer

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Saskia Archer is an actor on the rise. From the streets of Sydney, to the tur…

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Eli Craig has a message to horror audiences: go see Clown in the Cornfield in cinemas if you want sequels

Eli Craig has a message to horror audiences: go see Clown in the Cornfield in cinemas if you want sequels

Andrew F Peirce Apr 23, 2025 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts Comedy Eli Craig Fantastic Film Festival Australia horror Interview

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Eli Craig smashed onto the slasher scene with his genre-defying comedy event…

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90s All Over Me Part 5: 1993 – From Addams Family Values to Wyatt Earp

90s All Over Me Part 5: 1993 – From Addams Family Values to Wyatt Earp

BD Kooyman Apr 22, 2025 18 min read
Articles Review Wyatt Earp

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…

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Mother of Chooks co-director Jesse Leaman on the joy of making a film with his mum

Mother of Chooks co-director Jesse Leaman on the joy of making a film with his mum

Andrew F Peirce Apr 21, 2025 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film Doc Edge Festival documentary Hot Docs Interview Mother of Chooks

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Every so often, you sit down to watch a film, and find that it unexpectedly f…

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The Legend of Ochi is breathtaking with sparks of wonder

The Legend of Ochi is breathtaking with sparks of wonder

Nadine Whitney Apr 20, 2025 5 min read
Films Reviews A24 Drama fantasy Review The legend of ochi

Isaiah Saxon said in an interview several years ago conducted from Trout Gulch the Santa Fe forest artist’s commune and studio for Encyclopedia Pictura that his north star heroes in filmmaking are Miy…

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How Umbrella Entertainment physical media essays are written

How Umbrella Entertainment physical media essays are written

Andrew F. Peirce & Nadine Whitney Apr 19, 2025 1 min read
Podcasts discussion Eyes Without A Face Interview physical media Umbrella Entertainment

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. And we're back with another review discussion with myself, Andrew, and my…

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