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The wounded male ego spins out of control over a too long weekend in Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire, a claustrophobic and searing portrait of middle-aged male anomie brushing against the generation who…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. With 2021s phenomenal documentary River under his belt, filmm…
The earth echoes screams of fear taken in by a large parrot – Death (Arinzé Kene) embodied as an unfathomable feathered creature. Ineluctable and unswayed – the purpose is for the bird to silence the…
Written and directed by Michel Franco, Memory stars Jessica Chastain as Sylvia, a social worker, mother, and recovering addict who encounters Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) randomly and disturbingly when he f…
Pamela Adlon’s Babes begins with one of the most unconcerned “she’s in labour” scenes in recent memory. Eden (Ilana Glazer, also one of the screenwriters) and the heavily pregnant Dawn (Michelle Butea…
It doesn't end or begin. Just changes form. Water. Hands. Dirt. Fingers. Raindrops. An embrace. Tears. Letting go. Returning to that which made you are core aspects of All Dirt Roads Taste of Sal…
Paris is Burning is a stunning mosaic of urban, queer life. The impact of the documentary is as salient now as it was in 1990. Under the guise of homelessness, violence, racism, addiction, homophobia…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Akmal Saleh is one of Australia's finest stand up comedia…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In a Violent Nature is one of the most gruesome and gory horr…
Chris Nash in an interview stated that In a Violent Nature should feel like an entry into a slasher cycle you haven’t seen the beginning of. The film requires an understanding of the genre and the con…
On a hot summer day in Oslo a mysterious pulse brings the recently dead back to life. Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel and co-scripted by Lindqvist and director Thea Hvistendahl, Handling the Un…
2018 was a dark time for the “Merc with a Mouth” (at least he has one in this iteration, although Wolverine: Origins has been referenced before). On the ‘sacred timeline’ The Avengers are assembling t…